What Are The Steps Necessary To Execute The Hpqpwsd Utility; What Are The Steps Necessary To Create A Bootable Floppy For Bios Update - Compaq 8000 - Elite Convertible Minitower PC Manual

What are the steps necessary to execute the HPQPswd
utility?
The HPQPswd application is executed in the Windows environment by selecting the
HPQPswd.exe file. The initial HPQFlash application window will be presented as
follows options to the user or administrator.
As indicated in the image, this utility will create an encrypted password file
required to execute the HPQFlash application in a silent mode on an
administrative/setup password protected PC. HPQPswd utility is an application
which allows the user (typically a system administrator) to create an encrypted
password file which can be used with the /p option of the HPQFlash application.
This option is usually used along with the /s option to perform a silent mode
update of a PC BIOS on Hewlett-Packard computers which have a BIOS
administrative/setup password set. The password file can be named and stored in
any location. However, it is best to store the file in the same subdirectory as the
HPQFlash application. The HPQFlash application silent mode will execute without
user interaction.
What are the steps necessary to create a bootable floppy
for BIOS update?
Some products contain a BIOS image that is too large to fit on a diskette, or certain
models may not support a legacy floppy drive; therefore, the following information
would not be applicable to those products or models. To create an MS-DOS boot
disk from Windows XP Professional, the following steps can be executed: