bios

[napier48]

i've never done this before.

When making a disc with bios, do i just put the bios on one disc or does it need to be on a disc with ms-dos?

do i format a dos disc and then put the bios on it, or do i just have a disc with bios on it?

 

can anyone explain how to format the disc etc.?

[Naeaes]

4 minutes ago, napier48 said:

i've never done this before.

When making a disc with bios, do i just put the bios on one disc or does it need to be on a disc with ms-dos?

do i format a dos disc and then put the bios on it, or do i just have a disc with bios on it?

 

can anyone explain how to format the disc etc.?

Old school.  If you have enough RAM, you can use separate disks but there's no real need. Actually it's a risk you really don't want to take. And you can easily fit MS-DOS and the flasher and the BIOS file on a standard 1.44MB disk. Just create the bootable disk, save the flasher program and the BIOS file in there and follow the instructions for flashing. There's  a command string that runs the flasher. The motherboard manual should have info on that. If you don't mind my asking, what board are you flashing and why?

[napier48]

i have two with problems. one asks for the bios, like "no bios disk found" or something like that.

it calls for a floppy disk and i haven't made the disk as of yet.

i reset the cmos, when i found out later that all was really wrong was i wasn't plugging in the cpu power (ha, ha), but i had already reset the cmos.

i think it doesn't always call for bios when the cmos is reset though.

 

the other, just goes to the boot screen ("loading bios" and i think something wrong with the bios)and not go to the bios screen, and i think i have to reset the cmos and i'm afraid of haveing to boot the bios etc.

[napier48]

one board is dell (just stays in boot screen)

and other intel (uses floppy disc)

they are old and i had one up and running but not the other