Maybe something like - google for "DOS boot" - find one that you can put on a CD, copy it, burn it, then boot from it. Hope that helps Kris. It's designed to help someone repair a hosed copy of Windows. DOS, as they say, is dead. There are, however, options. Depending on the motherboard and the motherboard manufacturer, they do make Windows based BIOS updaters.
Some manufacturers also have DOS based updaters. Some have ones you can burn to a CD that come with their own boot loader. Check your motherboard's site for options. As KrisM suggested, you can google for and download a DOS boot diskette image and extract it to a floppy. Of course, you need a working floppy drive, and a working floppy diskette. Friday, March 27, PM. As others said here, it's very rare these days actually, it's been quite some time for a motherboard to actually require a true DOS enviroment to flash the BIOS.
Even of the boards that require that, the manufacturers usually also provide a floppy-disk image file. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster. Thanks for the suggestions folks. Saturday, March 28, PM. Got a model and revision for that motherboard? If you don't know what they are, they'll be sinkscreened onto the board. I have a really, really hard time believing that the only way to flash any board made in the last 5 years requires a bootable DOS disc that you, the end user, must provide, no less to do it.
I suspect the local shop was using old mother boards to fill out the low end machines. Part of me thinks it's time to replace it, but I hate giving in on it. Sunday, March 29, PM. It claims to fix resume from S1, S3, and S4. It does appear that they only have a dos utility for bios update. So I guess the lesson here is that if I don't tell people I do know what I'm doing, the assumption is that I don't.
I'll speak more clearly in the future. I'll look in to building a bootable USB stick and go from there. Thanks folks. A bootable USB drive is useful, but afuwin. For some commands and options to work in the Windows Vista and 7 command line, you must run the command line as administrator.
Windows and XP users who cannot boot the computer into Normal Windows mode or Safe Mode can also enter and use the Recovery Console to manage their computer from a prompt. See: How to use the Windows Recovery Console. However, if you are attempting to troubleshoot an issue with the computer and are using Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows 98, we suggest you restart the computer into MS-DOS. To do this, follow the steps below. If you are running MS-DOS with no other operating systems, the computer should be booting into an MS-DOS prompt automatically, unless you have a shell or other program loading automatically.
It has a relatively simple--but not overly "friendly"--user interface. The earliest versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system were really just applications that ran on top of the MS-DOS operating system.
The command prompt allows Windows users to issue DOS commands to the system. DOS commands are useful to Windows users for a variety of reasons.
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