MS DOS for New laptop to update BIOS

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 11:32

hello all

i was wandering if you can help me, i need to update the MOBO bios on the lappy.

i cant get to dos as its a win 7 and ntfs and the original manufacturer image has been formmated in recovery parition.

so i,m stuck.

the laptop keeps coming up witnh kernel-power id 41 BSOD when i,m doing a file transfer from one EXT HD to my NEW EXT.

so i,m hopeing the bios upgrade can help.

any ideas on how to update the bios via dos please.

its a phoenix bios.

thanks

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 11:43

Information About Your Current BIOS
BIOS Type: Phoenix
BIOS Date: 20081025
BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
BIOS Version: M1.02
BIOS Size: 1048576
Manufacturer: Medion
Product: P8610
Base Manufacturer: Medion
Base Product: P8610
Chassis Manufacturer: Medion

Tomsk · 20 Nov 2009 at 11:46

http://www1.medion.de/downloads/index.pl?op=detail&id=6971&type=treiber&lang=uk

If you don't have a support CD, you could try booting to the recovery partiton. there may be some options in there.

HTH

bledd · 20 Nov 2009 at 11:51

Many bioses have an update function IN the bios now, have a look at the options

Failing that, flash from cd guide here

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?p=186345

slinxy · 20 Nov 2009 at 11:52

create a bootable usb drive, there's a HP usb formating app that will do it for you and the dos source files are available online.

Theguy · 20 Nov 2009 at 12:37

simple way of creating a bootable usb device for bios flashing, is by using an application called unetbootin for windows.
you would then select freedos, and it downloads it onto the usb.
you would then put the new bios files onto the usb.
boot into dos from that, and then hey presto..

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 14:35

hi

the HP usb option wont work under vista, i followed the link by bledd and it came up with cannot update when doskey is present.

any ideas on this please

Bash · 20 Nov 2009 at 14:39

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Probably full of Malware......... lol

Dano · 20 Nov 2009 at 14:41

USB floppy drive, format disk > create MS-DOS startup disk > copy BIOS flash utility and BIOS.dat file to it, boot from floppy.

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 14:43

there is no floppy drive in this laptop.

Raumarik · 20 Nov 2009 at 14:46

Bash said:
http://www.bootdisk.com/

Probably full of Malware......... lol

bootdisk.com is actually a very good resource

mdjmcnally · 20 Nov 2009 at 14:54

thirded. I use them to create a bootable USB to BIOS flash motherboards.

Chaos · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:30

ATI said:
hi

the HP usb option wont work under vista, i followed the link by bledd and it came up with cannot update when doskey is present.

any ideas on this please

Try running the hp util as administrator.

Here is a post about someone doing the same thing -

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=246530

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:41

the exact error is:

pheonix phflash error

cannot flash when doskey is present

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:46

thanks a lot for that but it wornt work as my win doesnt support it

win 7 x64

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 15:47

@Tomsk

the parition is deleted i wish i never done that now.

Dano · 20 Nov 2009 at 16:21

ATI said:
there is no floppy drive in this laptop.

Which is why I stated USB floppy drive, as in an external one.

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 17:29

ohh right

i dont have access to one

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 19:12

great with some more digging up

my laptop can boot from usb.

so it doesnt have to be a cd.

so would a usb help me flash this damn bios with out the doskey issue.

ATI · 20 Nov 2009 at 19:37

hi

i used the below advice, i manged to make a bottable usb but i cant see the bios files. and do i go for the 1st option?

any help pls with this

thanks

Theguy said:
simple way of creating a bootable usb device for bios flashing, is by using an application called unetbootin for windows.
you would then select freedos, and it downloads it onto the usb.
you would then put the new bios files onto the usb.
boot into dos from that, and then hey presto..