Well, I have an odd request that I need filled. Basically I don't have a floppy drive because I don't have the correct floppy cable. I would like to flash the BIOS of my video card, but can't find a program to do it in windows, not surprised. Since I can't use a Boot Disk I need a Boot CD, but I have no clue how to make/get one. I'd be grateful for any links and/or ideas.
Wouldn't booting up with the windows XP cd and pressing repair on the first time it asks u take u to a dos screen to do the job ? If that doesn't work for u, use a usb key drive, like i do. Have a look here http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1676 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5735
The Windows CD may not do that properly, which is the repair console you're talking about? This very same question was posted by a member of Bink.nu, and I am trying to help them do it as well. You can make a bootable DOS CD by using the WinME boot image found here: http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/winmebootcd.html You can add the flash files to that CD before burning. However, the flashrom utility may not work properly, as it has no access to change anything from the CD. If not, then go by Kyaner's post, and set the files on a USB key.
That'd be great if I had a thumb drive, but I don't. I'd just go get a freakin floppy cable before I bought a thumb drive. The flash utility should work properly since it's not necessary to change any of the files. I'll try the WinME boot image you posted and see how that goes. Thanks for the help. I'll post back some time tomorrow about what happened.
I found this guide for video bios flashing ...... more important ... it has 2 other methods (create a DOS partition in the HDD & bypass startup files if you have Windows 9X cd) additional to boot from floppy/CD/DVD/USB stick http://www.techpowerup.com/printarticle.php?id=34 Making a bootable dos 6.22 cd http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
If you have access to another PC with a floppy, you can: Download a variety of bootdisks (MSDOS, PCDOS, Win9x, etc..) from www.bootdisk.com . The Win98SE boot disk should be fine. Create the floppy disk, then copy your BIOS files onto it, then use Nero to create a Bootable CD, where you specify A: drive to grab the floppy image and burn it to CD. *BUT* some BIOS updaters dont like Himem.sys in memory - which is required to load the CDROM driver and MSCDEX.EXE to allocate a drive letter. So what you need to do is remove the "DEVICE=" lines in CONFIG.SYS on the MSDOS boot disk, and tell Nero to use "HDD Emulation" in the Bootable CD project options.
Or just buy a cheap USB Floppy (you can get them for like $20). This way you dont have to muck around creating a bootable CD every time you wanna update the BIOS. This one is a 2x Floppy (it reads/writes standard 3.5" floppies two times faster than a standard floppy drive) http://www.yedata.com/products/floppydrives/usb2x.shtml
I could also just go buy the floppy cable for like $3 so I can use my existing floppy drive. The point was I didn't want to spend any money. I used the method that Morpheous416 posted and it worked like a charm. It was actullay kind of funny to watch the CD burn because it took over a minute to write the lead-in and out and only 2 seconds to burn the data. Anyways, I flashed it perfectly fine. Now all I need to do is test and see how the flash worked. That'll probably be tomorrow since I have class today from 12:30 to 7:45.
Glad it worked out for ya Alex. Bak, please tell me you didn't provide that one link cuz you pay $10 a month to see solutions to probs?
You mean the experts exchange link ? It worked for me yesterday, i could see the solutions for free http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache...g+a+bootable+dos+6.22+cd&hl=en&client=firefox google cache works fine
