On 10/30/07, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/30/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure how it would work for say a motherboard BIOS update but it
> > may soon be the only option for some boards if you don't have MS Windows.
>
> I thought BIOS updates were delivered by DOS floppy disk. I've never
> done one myself...
Floppy disk -- how quaint. Nowadays computers don't have floppy
drives. I just went through a BIOS update on my new HP/Compaq laptop
that has no floppy drive. I downloaded a windows program from the HP
web site, sneaker-netted it to the laptop on a USB memory stick, and
ran it.
After some fumbling around to learn about logging in to Windows XP Pro
as Administrator, it worked. The program unpacked itself into a bunch
of data files and an executable, and then ran the executable.
carl
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