Flashing Abit IP35-E Bios

[1Cheap2Crazy]

I think I just finished building my first PC, and I'm about to go ballistic. It wasn't fun.
I have 4GB memory, e2180, and a 6200LE PCI-E graphics card, and a floppy drive. Got into the Bios and have the boot sequence as follow: floppy, cdrom, HD. I do not have an OS installed. Bios did recognize my 300GB HD. Bios version is 15.
My floppy has the following files on it:
IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM.
Awdflash.exe, Abitfae.bat, Runme.bat and the BIOS .bin file
What will happen when I boot from the floppy? Do I have to flash the bios then? Can I escape out of that screen? How? I want to check to make sure my floppy drive is working first. Should I install XP on the hard drive before flashing?

Thanks

 

[bruceb]

That floppy sounds like it automatically run the BIOS flash file.
You have BIOS 15 ... What version is on the Floppy ? ? Do you
need to update it for a specific reason ? ?

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

My bad, v15 is the latest.

 

[jackschmittusa]

If there is no autoexec.bat file on it, the floppy should boot into DOS without doing anything else (unless you type in a command, such as runme.bat). You could then just shut down the rig after your test.