The laptop is a Compaq Presario 1255. It's running at 360MHz and has 288MBs of RAM. The update is F14 with a date of 02/09/99. The file name I burned to a floppy disk is sp9678.exe.
The first time I tried flashing the BIOS I started Windows XP, went to start>computer>A drive and double clicked on the file. I had to click on a few answers and then it did it's thing. It got to the end and I got "Error 05: Error Reading Label".
So then I restarted the computer and hit F8 before POST. I selected "Command Prompt" so I can enter DOS. I put the floppy in and typed cd a:\. Then I typed A:\sp9678.exe, then answered a few questions like I did before and let it update the BIOS. It got to the end and I got the "Error 05: Error Reading Label" again. I've tried it a few times both ways and I keep getting the same error message.
Have any of you had this problem before? How did you fix it? Any help any of you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
The first time I tried flashing the BIOS I started Windows XP, went to start>computer>A drive and double clicked on the file. I had to click on a few answers and then it did it's thing. It got to the end and I got "Error 05: Error Reading Label".
So then I restarted the computer and hit F8 before POST. I selected "Command Prompt" so I can enter DOS. I put the floppy in and typed cd a:\. Then I typed A:\sp9678.exe, then answered a few questions like I did before and let it update the BIOS. It got to the end and I got the "Error 05: Error Reading Label" again. I've tried it a few times both ways and I keep getting the same error message.
Have any of you had this problem before? How did you fix it? Any help any of you can give me would be greatly appreciated.