Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.1.2.2 ROMPaq versions Next Document: 3.1.2.4 Determining the BIOS date See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge - Philip's note: I have never done either of the following, and I am not sure which is the best method. The second method is certainly more intensive. The first method may only work on an Aero that boots to MS-DOS. (August 2001). [C] Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 From: N V Fitton Use some other machine, let's say a desktop, that does have a floppy drive. Copy or download file SP????.exe to the desktop machine and run it there, using its floppy drive as directed. Copy the files created on the floppy disk to a new directory on the Aero. Cold-boot the Aero, holding the F5 key to prevent config.sys and autoexec.bat from being loaded and run. Change to the new directory on the Aero and run the program rompaq.exe. [C] From: "Ulrich Hansen" Newsgroups: aisb.lists.aero Subject: Re: BIOS update w/o floppy disk Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:14:57 +0200 1. rename your autoexec.bat to autoexec.old 2. rename your config.sys to config.old 3. copy the softpack files into root c: with the sp files comes another config.sys: buffers = 20 files = 15 shell = a:\rompaq.exe /l:us /! dos=high device=\himem.exe (the shell command is very important) 4. shut down the aero and restart it 5. Follow the instructions Afterwards: - Start the aero and hit f8 when you see the message "windows95 is started". - Choose Option No. 5. (Confirm Startcommands) Choose 'no' for every command except the doublespace driver if you use a doublespace/drivespace drive). You now start with a clean msdos-screen - Delete the config.sys del config.sys - Rename the autoexec/config.old to bat/sys. ren autoexec.old autoexec.bat ren config.old config.sys - Delete the softpack files in the root directory User Contributions:Top Document: Compaq Contura Aero Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 3.1.2.2 ROMPaq versions Next Document: 3.1.2.4 Determining the BIOS date Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Philip Wilk <PWilk-aerofaq@ZenSpider.com>
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