BIOS Updates forum

I am running XP PRO on a BIOSTAR MoBo with a VIA chipset including an AWARD BIOS and an AMD CPU. The BIOS/CMOS setup for the AWARD has about a page of options on enabling various types of RAM and Shadowing memory schemes plus a variety of specific memory ranges which are useable for BIOS, and other,...

Some video cards/drivers have specific do & don'ts regarding shadowing.

I brought down a copy of a DOS 6.2 boot disk, took off many of the unneeded files. Worked like a champ. Thanks --- and I really do think someone should post a procedure in the Collected Wisdom list. Save a bit of extra typing. Thanks!

By the way, some one might want to test a few options and post them (it) in the Golden Oldies thread. I'll try this one and get back.

I had found the MS INSTALL file on the MS site but wondered if it allows booting to simply a DOS prompt before getting through the key start up files. Would you know or have a suggestion in getting around the programming? Otherwise I also got a copy of DOS 6.22 for XP and figure that should work. Ag...

I have WinXP Pro and a need to move to a newer BIOS version. Known requirement for some software. Question: The AWDFLASH.EXE text file blandly states that a DOS boot without CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT is needed. MS Knowledge base has nothing and none of my XP materials seem to yield an answer. Any ...