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Upgrading BIOS - HP Pavilion w/Win 2000?

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by lt1transamgt 1 view

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I have a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 9600c running Windows 2000 and I need to upgrade the BIOS to a new version. I went to the HP website and downloaded the update but it has to be run from DOS and the MSDOS prompt will not run the update correctly. Isthere a way that I can boot the machine into DOS and run the update there? I have Win 2000 installed with the NTFS option. Here is a link to the website for the download if that would help.
BIOS Update
Thanks,
George

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by eclipse860

I imagine you downloaded the BIOS update from HP and then executed it. It should have prompted you for a blank floppy disk. It should extract the contents onto the floppy. The floppy is then bootable. Pop the disk in, fire up the computer, let it boot from the floppy and it should automatically run the BIOS update procedure and ask you to confirm.

If that is not the answer, you can create a bootable floppy from Windows 95/98, copy your flash program and BIOS update to the disk, boot from the floppy and run the utils. The OS and hard drive should have nothing to do with a BIOS update.

by stngfan1

I know what you are going thru. I have a laptop and the same problem. When you boot it looks for the NTDLR file on the floppy to boot W2K. It won't let you boot from a DOS disk. I have posted too about this and haven't recieved a good answer.I was able to remove the harddrive, then boot from the DOS floppy and install my BIOS update. Then connect the harddrive and boot W2K.

Its not the best answer but it worked for me.

TM.

by eclipse860

Ok, so that didnt work? For both of you... did you check to make sure that the BIOS has the boot order set correctly?? Therer should be an option in the BIOS to boot ftom the Floppy, then the Hard Drive, Etc.. I usually set it to bott from Floppy then CD-Rom then Hard Drive. If you dont have it set to boot from Floppy 1st, then my solution above will not work.

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