update motherboard BIOS under XP Pro

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Doug Epling

I use a PII 350Mhz processor to run Windows XP Pro. It has been working
well even though this is the bare minimum processor according to Microsoft.
I was thinking of upgrading my processor, hopefully to a PIII, but I need to
update my motherboard BIOS.

I have the recommended BIOS downloaded from Gateway. But their instructions
are for Win 98. According to Gateway ( I tried anyway and they are right.),
this BIOS installation program from Intel will not work on a bootable floppy
created with XP.

How do I install this BIOS? What I need is a boot disk created w/Win 98 but
with my system files. How do I create a boot disk formated with Win 98?

Thanks for your help.
 
Doug said:
I use a PII 350Mhz processor to run Windows XP Pro. It has been
working well even though this is the bare minimum processor according
to Microsoft. I was thinking of upgrading my processor, hopefully to
a PIII, but I need to update my motherboard BIOS.

I have the recommended BIOS downloaded from Gateway. But their
instructions are for Win 98. According to Gateway ( I tried anyway
and they are right.), this BIOS installation program from Intel will
not work on a bootable floppy created with XP.

How do I install this BIOS? What I need is a boot disk created w/Win
98 but with my system files. How do I create a boot disk formated
with Win 98?

Thanks for your help.
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Doug

Go to http://www.bootdisk.com where there are free, downloadable boot disks
available for every operating system.

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Doug said:
I use a PII 350Mhz processor to run Windows XP Pro. It has been
working well even though this is the bare minimum processor according
to Microsoft. I was thinking of upgrading my processor, hopefully to
a PIII, but I need to update my motherboard BIOS.

I have the recommended BIOS downloaded from Gateway. But their
instructions are for Win 98. According to Gateway ( I tried anyway
and they are right.), this BIOS installation program from Intel will
not work on a bootable floppy created with XP.

How do I install this BIOS? What I need is a boot disk created w/Win
98 but with my system files. How do I create a boot disk formated
with Win 98?

Thanks for your help.
Click to expand...

1) Borrow a friend's Windows 98 computer to create a DOS boot disk.
or
2) Download one from http://www.bootdisk.com
 
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