Does your BIOS come with a "Firmware Update" BIOS Boot Option? If it
does, it should provide you a File Manager to select files from the
USB drive and verify that the selected file is actually an applicable
firmware update. Even if the file is just an EXE, the "Firmware
Update" File Manager is
> MS DOS 6.x was not the end of MS-DOS. Windows 9x releases added a
> strange protected mode, but unlike NT, these versions of Windows still ran on
> top of MS-DOS.
> There is no support for DOS based Windows any longer and the
> ReactOS project essentially abandoned it. However, there are
>
I suspected as much. Dell support, of course, runs and hides when it comes
to any issue outside the Microsoft ecosystem. So, no joy there.
Thanks for your time and prompt reply, Tom.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 1:30 PM tom ehlert wrote:
> Hallo Herr Jack Browning,
>
> am Montag, 6. Januar 2020 um
Hallo Herr Jack Browning,
am Montag, 6. Januar 2020 um 19:32 schrieben Sie:
> I've been trying to update the BIOS on my wife's Dell Inspiron 17
> 5721 laptop using FreeDOS. I've tried to do this with FreeDOS 1.0,
> 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3rc2, each time with the same result.
> What happens is this:
I've been trying to update the BIOS on my wife's Dell Inspiron 17 5721
laptop using FreeDOS. I've tried to do this with FreeDOS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and
1.3rc2, each time with the same result.
What happens is this: after setting up FreeDOS on a USB stick using its
.img file (and adding the BIOS
