Hello Gregg,

Friday, October 08, 1999, 5:00:42 AM, you wrote:

GP> Hi,
GP> I have a packardbell Platinum XI, pentium 166mhz, AMI
GP> bios, computer that I was able to download the bios
GP> upgrade for. I have it startup in dos and type in
GP> "A:\FMUP.EXE" as instructed it warns me that the
GP> machine is in "virtual - 86 mode" and it would be
GP> dangerous to flash the bios. It tells me to disable
GP> this mode or close windows. well, i'm in dos and
GP> windows is closed. I cant find anything refering to
GP> "virtual - 86 mode" but, I did disable the virtual
GP> memory in device manager and started back up in dos but
GP> it still said the same thing. what am I doing wrong?
GP> (besides purchasing a packardbell computer!).
GP> Any help is always appreciated,
GP> Thankyou,
GP> Gregg

Remove (or comment with REM, that's better) all lines
that have "EMM386" in them in AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. Don't
forget to put them back afterwards!

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