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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mappingworld who wrote (10854)	5/12/2000 9:33:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

BIOS doesn't care what O/S you have, as it looks at the floppy before it starts booting the O/S from the HDD. Your win98 startup floppy should be fine for updating the BIOS. One problem might be if you put the BIOS installer program and BIOS file on your HDD -- if your HDD is formatted in NTFS you probably won't be able to access it from the win98 floppy. In which case you could put the BIOS files on the win98 floppy or on a separate floppy (or on a FAT 32 or FAT partition on your HDD). IMO, wily

To: mappingworld who wrote (10854)	5/12/2000 9:52:00 PM
From: E.J. Neitz Jr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Olga, To upgrade the bios, doesn't really matter what your operating system is. What I mean--boot your computer with a system disk floppy(system disk can be win95,98 or dos) at the A prompt, insert the disk that contains your bios upgrade program and upgrade. Make sure you have the bios upgrade on the floppy where the upgrade program is. Also, read the directions that came with your motherboard very carefully. You can really screw up your computer if done incorrectly. The four floppies for win2000, are simply a repair set for restoring win2000.