I am using at hp xt878 with a 1700+ amd athalon. I got it all figured out and working, and here is what I did. I went to bootdisk.com, got an windows 98se start-up disk. Then, because I couldn't for the life of me get the bios update onto a floppy, I burned the bios update files onto a cd-rom. I started up, loaded the windows 98se start-up disk into the virtual ram deal with cd access support. Then, I accessed the cd drive, using the dos command prompt, and ran the bios update...worked like a charm.
Later
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