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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:02, Mick wrote: |
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>> On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> |
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> wrote: |
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>>> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 05:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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>>>> Most BIOS programs save the existing BIOS so they need somewhere to |
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>>>> write to. |
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>>> I never encountered a bios flasher that forced me to save the bios |
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>>> somewhere. A lot of them did not even had to save the bios, if you wanted |
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>>> to. |
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>>> |
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>>> But even if you have such a crazy flasher - that is, what the |
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>>> dos-partition is made for. Just let it save the stuff to the harddisk. |
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>>> |
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>>> No floppy, no cry ;) |
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>> What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic |
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>> manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? |
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> |
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> good luck, boy. |
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> |
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> At least my manufacturers provide dos flash, or dos&windows flash files. |
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> |
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> Maybe you should ask their support. Maybe the dos files are only hidden very |
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> well |
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Hi, |
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Check if they aren't just a self-extract zip archive (unzip file.exe). |
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Rumen |
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