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Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to write to. |
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On Tuesday September 12 2006 22:52, Grant wrote: |
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> > > How do you guys flash your BIOS to a new version? Are you all digging |
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> > > up floppy drives? |
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> > > - Grant |
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> > no I turn my swap-partition into a dos-partition, but all the bios stuff |
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> > onto it, boot from a freedos cd and flash the bios/firmware. |
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> > If I touch a floppy drive, it dies. And flashing with a freedos cd works |
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> > very well. |
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> Would it work to burn a bootable CD with the BIOS files on it and |
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> flash that way? |
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> If anyone could get me specific information on this I'd really |
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> appreciate it. My motherboard needs the latest BIOS to run my new |
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> Tualatin Celeron processor, and I know if I screw up the BIOS I screw |
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> up the system. |
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> - Grant |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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