Help I cant flash bios on PT880

Just got my new mobo up and trying to flash the bios but cant, I type in the AMI flash program from dos and all I get is a bunch of mumbo jumbo like this
COMMAND>
?:HELP
_B Disable boot programming
(you get the idea? )
I went to msi website
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_AMI.asp
but when I type C: as instructed all I get is invalid drive peramerators
this sucks I am sitting at the dos screen now booted from a start up disk (win ME)

That method is for flashing from a c: drive.
Try this method:
Go to
http://www.bootdisk.com/
and get a Win98 OEM boot disk. Follow the instructions to prepare a bootable floppy disk.
Copy your flash program and bios image to a second disk.
Boot from the Win98 floppy. This will create a ram drive c:
Change to that drive by typing
C:
Then put in your bios floppy and copy all the files to the c drive:
copy a:*.*
Then flash by typing
flashprog biosname.ver
where flahsprog is the name of the exe file contained in the package from the MSI web site and biosname.ver is the bios file you are flashing, which is also contained in the package from the MSI web site.

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Hello
manual of Z77 report "do not multi-BIOS switch when the system is powered on".
I have to go anymore ?
Ty,
Adry aka Caronte
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