Windows 2000 upgrade problems with Bios

[66afro]

I upgraded my o/s from win98 to win2000. Unfortunately I did not upgrade my bios before I did the installation. Now my floppy drive and several core compents do not work properly. I can't upgrade the bios now because it part of that process is based on booting up through with the floppy. Please Help

 

[CharlieJax]

Can you get into your BIOS and check your settings to make sure that it boots to the floppy before it boots to the hard drive? CJ

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[66afro]

Yes I have changed the boot order to Cd first and then back. I have gone into the control panel as well to check the floppy and it says there are no problems and it works fine. My problem is that I rushed the upgrade. I have an HP pavilion that I was suppose to upgrade the bios before I installed win2k pro. I failed to do this and would like to somehow startover. Any suggestions?

 

[GlenJohnson]

Can you burn to a cd, then set boot option to boot to a cd first? Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting
MCP W2K
glen@johnsoncomputers.us

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[66afro]

On a seperate computer, I downloaded the the manufacuters bios upgrade which neeeds to boot off a floopy. I copied the data to a file on my hard drive and burned it onto a cd. Then I went into the bios setting and listed the cd as the first boot option. This didn't work. Am I doing something wrong?

I have also considered reformatting my hard drive and hoping that would cause a default config for the floppy at which time and could upgrade the bios and reinstall win2k. Unfortunately I haven't been able to reformat the drive successfully.

I really appreciate any thoughts!!