Installing your motherboard drivers to the hard drive of your computer through DOS ensures that you will never be without a backup copy of the drivers. Accomplish your goal in two parts, first transferring the actual driver files to the system in DOS, followed by configuring the files with your operating system thereafter. This generally takes less than 20 minutes.
Instructions
1. Insert the driver file CD into the computer along with the DOS boot disk.
2. Restart the computer. Press any key when prompted to boot from the disk into DOS.
3. Type "d:" and press "Enter," substituting "d" with the letter of your optical drive if it is different.
4. Type "copy d:*.* x:" and press "Enter," replacing "x" with the drive letter of your hard drive. This installs the files from your driver CD to the hard drive.
5. Remove the boot disk and restart your computer. Click "Start," "Control Panel" and "Device Manager."
6. Select the motherboard device (LAN card, graphics driver, etc.) you wish to configure with the operating system and select "Driver." Click "Update" and select the letter of the drive to which you installed the motherboard drivers to complete the configuration.
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