Alistair, On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 03:21, Alastair Scott wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 03:11, Terence Golightly wrote: > > > I tried to use a 95 boot disk to run the firmware upgrade. I got the > > same message to the effect that the archive won't execute in dos mode. > > In other words, the utility is expecting Windows itself - not just a > boot disk created using Windows - to run :/
Appears so. > > This is becoming more common, and what happens next depends on the > motherboard manufacturer; a trawl of its support site would be useful. I'm trying to upgrade the firmware on my plextor pw1210a. Yeah that is the next step. > > I use Asus which has always been very good; it provides a DOS updater > (called AFLASH.EXE) and the BIOS image as a separate binary file. Put > the two on any boot disk created from Windows, reboot and do AFLASH > <binary filename> from the prompt. > > Your manufacturer might not be so accommodating, unfortunately. > > http://www.bootdisk.com/ is useful - perhaps "make a quick boot disk #1 > .. #4" might offer a solution? That is where I got a caldera drdos bootdisk, which was the first one I tried with drdflash.exe, then the win95 boot disk mentioned in previous posts. Thanks for your reply, Terry -- I used to have a signature, but I lost it. My new one is: IIRC CRS
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