Asus P4p800s Bios Update Problem

I'll start from the top. I've installed Battlefield 1942 on my PC. I get absolutely no sound! My soundcard is a Creative Soundblaster Live! 5.1, 16bit soundcard,
I emailed Creative about my problem and they said I should update my motherboard BIOS. I have an ASUS P4P800S motherboard, I went to the ASUS site and tried to follow the instructions.
I have Windows XP pro. However in trying to craete a boot disk in DOS prompt the instructions said...'FORMAT A: /S', I typed this and got the message 'invalid parameter - /s'.

Help!! I am stuck and this is really frustrating!

I didn't realize this until you mention it now: you're right. /s is no longer an option. That used to make a bootable copy of the floppy disk. They're moving toward bootable CDs instead. Heck, I can't remember the last time I used a floppy drive ... years!

This page links to the various XP support pages on microsoft's site to get you going:

http://www.computerhope.com/boot.htm#71

You have to be a professor to work out how to update a bios from their site.The normal method is to download it on a floppy disk and boot your sytem from the floppy,I cannot follow asus instuctions to do this from their site,they are too difficult to follow,you have to be a rocket scientist.

You're right, the -/s parameter is no longer valid, ASUS should update their instructions, to make a bootable floppy, put an unformatted floppy in your floppy drive, open my computer, right-click the floppy drive and choose format, in Windows XP, there is an option for creating a Bootable Floopy, choose "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"...when done, download the latest version of AFUDOS211.zip from the ASUS site, unzip the file and add it to the floppy, the file name will read afudos.exe. This is the utility used to flash your bios. Then download and unzip the latest Bios file, it will be a file with a .rom suffix, change the name of the file to your motherboard type, example, my motherboard is the P4C800, so change the.rom file to P4C800.rom. Then reboot to DOS, once at the a:/ type afudos /ip4c800b.rom, remembering to add the "i" before the rom file name....the utility will start, do not turn off your power while in the middle of updating....when the process is complete, you'll be asked to reboot...take out your floppy and whala! Hope this helps.