cant upgrade BIOS on 600E

[hewhy]

So I am not the most computer savy person around so I need a little help here. I was doing some reading and noticed everybody recommends upgrading BIOS so I checked and mine is version 1.06 or 26 rather then 36. What is odd is that I am running windows XP w/o any problems when I read you must update in order to install XP.. obviously I didnt.

Anyway when I try to upgrade the BIOS, nothing happens. I created a boot floppy and copied the new BIOS upgrade from IBM. So I go thru some crap and hit enter to read the readme file. After that It asks me to insert a blank disk to copy the files too so I do that and every single try I get an error saying the disk is bad... its not bad! wtf am I doing wrong?

btw this is a 600E 400mhz p2, 10GB hd, 128mb ram.(model 2645-8BU)

I really love this laptop. Its 1000x nicer than the old Dell I used to own! I only wish the battery lasted longer:(

[JHEM]

You have to run the program you downloaded while it's on your HD and IT will make a bootable floppy with the BIOS upgrade utility and BIN file on it.

Then you BOOT your unit from this floppy and it will upgrade the BIOS.

Regards,

James

[hewhy]

THANKS! The problem ended up being the stupid a: vs b: designation of the floppy drive. I for some reason was unable to change that so I had to create the disk with my desktop.