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[demon]

I'm trying to flash my videocard bios (with the original bios) and apparantly need to do it in dos. I don't have any floppy disk (you do need those anymore am i rite?), so what do I need to do to boot into dos? It pisses me off that I have to jump through all these fucking hoops just to do this.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

what o/s are you running?

 

[demon]

heh, oops. XP.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

There is no DOS in windows nt/2k/xp. You can make a boot compact disk if you don't have a floppy drive. Do you need native dos, or just a command line to execute a program from?

 

[Tenacious-V]

Well you can't....

The only way you can is to:
1) Boot from a Floppy
2) Boot from a CD Rom
3) Boot from a Hard Disc Drive

If you don't have a bootable disc from 1 of those 3 options, you're out of luck.

But on the plus side I'm pretty sure there are Windows based bios flash utilities somewhere online you can grab.

 

[Claus]

Boot from your XP install CD and select Repair from the first screen. That should boot you into DOS.

 

[demon]

Do you need native dos, or just a command line to execute a program from?

I....don't know. I'm trying to run Atiflash v3.07. I tried to do the flash while in XP, but I don't think it worked.

 

[dilbert627]

Boot from your XP install CD and select Repair from the first screen. That should boot you into DOS.

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No, that will boot you to the XP recovery console, which is not DOS in any way at all. It just 'looks' like DOS.

Try here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/

Bootable CD about halfway down the page.