Bootable disk for BIOS flashing in ME?

[Alacrity]

Help! I'm trying to flash my EPOX 8K7A+.

The instructions direct you to create a bootable floppy disk that contains no drivers or programs that load during the boot. I tried using the format a: /s command, but that doesn't work in ME. (Why not?)

I have an ME startup disk, but I think that loads a bunch of drivers.

My question is, how can I create a bootable disk? Can I just delete some of the files off of the startup disk? If so, which ones?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

 

[damien6]

Just use the ME startup disk to boot into A: prompt (Dos) then exchange floppy to a separate floppy disk that only contains the bios flashing ultility + bios image file.

 

[Damascus]

I used to go through the trouble of using a boot disk, but now
I don't even bother. When Windows is starting up, I just press F8
and choose "command prompt only" since nothing is loaded
in config.sys or autoexec.bat anyway. Works fine for me.

Just flashed the BIOS on my K7T Turbo a few times recently
with this procedure.

 

[Budman]

Damascus,

In WinME there is no command prompt only.

 

[SaigonK]

When you boot up on the WINME disk, hit F8 and it will give you options.
One of them (i believe its on the bottom of the screen) says "Command prompt only"
Select it...then do your flash.

 

[Alacrity]

Thanks SaigonK. That worked like a charm.

 

[SaigonK]

Cool! Glad to hear it worked for ya! 😀