Flash bios without floppy?

[Yzzim]

My Epox 8k7a is giving me problems with my floppy drive and I want to update the bios to see if that solves the problem. How would I flash the bios without a floppy drive?

Everytime I try to read a floppy disk I get an error saying that the disk needs to be formatted...so I try to format it and I can't....get another stupid error. I've tried a couple floppy drives and cables (all in different ways) and have had no luck.

I'm positive the floppy disk themselves are good cause they work in my parents machine just fine. I have no idea what the problem is...hopefully the bios update will fix it.

 

[Sundog]

Change out the floppy with the one in your parents machine.

Or boot off of a zip drive if you have one.

 

[John]

[*]Unzip bios files to c:\bios
[*]Reboot PC and hit F8 until you get a startup menu, and choose command prompt
[*]switch to the c:\bios directory and run the update

 

[wluk]

<< [*]Unzip bios files to c:\bios
[*]Reboot PC and hit F8 until you get a startup menu, and choose command prompt
[*]switch to the c:\bios directory and run the update >>



it will work if you are using win95 or win98 only.

 

[Sundog]

John you sneaky pete

I knew I was going to learn something tonight!

 

[obenton]

Check floppy setting in BIOS.

 

[Steven the Leech]

Or make a boot CDrom with nero in a w98 machine. change bios to boot from cdrom. then do the dos thing to the dir where u have the bios saved.

 

[Yzzim]

<< Change out the floppy with the one in your parents machine.

Or boot off of a zip drive if you have one. >>


I've tried 2 different floppy drives (which I know work) and they both gave me the same result.



<< <<
Unzip bios files to c:\bios

Reboot PC and hit F8 until you get a startup menu, and choose command prompt

switch to the c:\bios directory and run the update >>



it will work if you are using win95 or win98 only. >>


I'm in Win98 and WinXP dual boot....is that ok?

 

[wluk]

you may try hitting F8 to see if it will let you boot to command prompt.

 

[Yzzim]

I went ahead and flashed the bios, everything worked great
Haven't had time to check my floppy drive yet, but I know the bios update went great.

I'm not sure if it backed up my old bios or not, the whole process went a lot faster than with a floppy drive.

What I did was chose Windows 98 at the dual boot menu and then I held down on Shift. That brought me into Safe Mode, so I restarted and then chose Windows 98 from the dual boot menu again and it gave me the option to go to Command Prompt Only.
I went ahead with that flashed the bios like normal

Seems to have worked great

Thanks for the help!

 

[John]

You're welcome.