I was wondering if anybody knew what to do in a situation like this: I have a 2 year old laptop that is pretty crappy, but it lives. It's cd-rom, external powe4r port, and video port dont work, and the graphics are really red and it ruins gaming. and the wireless internet adapter just went out, so I want to reinstall it, I have a bootable version of the xp install disk on a usb but the bios is way out of date(no usb boot support) and it won't let me flash it on battery power and it doesn't have a floppy version(I have a external floppy drive). so I eather need a way to trick my computer into thinking it's running off of external power, make a flash bios floppy, or get a floppy that boots usb's. PLEASE HELP!,
NIk

Well if the usb floppy is detecting in bios then just update with the pc on ac power.

How do you charge the battery?

Yes I charge the battery I bought a charger for it. And I would do the cd but the cdrom drive doesn't work...

How bout u link to usb and run the update off of cd rather than floppy
just burn a simple dos boot file to it as an iso then add the flash program to it. Start the machine to the prompt, run the command and all should be good.