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08-23-2006, 03:05 PM
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Flashing BIOS
I'm about to flash BIOS, I made a boot disk 862KB, the flash file and rom are 512KB. Would it be ok if I executed the flash file and updated the BIOS if I use them on my hard drive?
If not, can I delete any of these to make space (244 KB free)? Directory of A:\ 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 1,103 AUTOEXEC.BAT 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 629 CONFIG.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 1,416 SETRAMD.BAT 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 14,764 README.TXT 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 6,855 FINDRAMD.EXE 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 12,663 RAMDRIVE.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 14,386 ASPI4DOS.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 21,971 BTCDROM.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 29,620 ASPICD.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 30,955 BTDOSM.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 35,330 ASPI2DOS.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 37,564 ASPI8DOS.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 40,792 ASPI8U2.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 64,425 FLASHPT.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 93,242 EXTRACT.EXE 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 63,916 FDISK.EXE 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 68,871 DRVSPACE.BIN 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 93,890 COMMAND.COM 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 33,191 HIMEM.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 41,302 OAKCDROM.SYS 04/23/1999 10:22 PM 272,206 EBD.CAB 21 File(s) 979,091 bytes 0 Dir(s) 250,368 bytes free A:\> |
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08-23-2006, 04:32 PM
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Make a second diskette with the flash program and flash room only. Use the boot diskette to boot to dos then remove diskette and use second diskette.
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08-23-2006, 06:58 PM
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the M863G (V1.5A). Mine is a M863G V5.1C, I didn't bother looking at the rev. Anyways, the site has no V5.1C, only V5.1A. Would this work? M863G (V1.5A): Old BIOS - Release 07/27/05 New BIOS - Release 08/27/04 Old BIOS Tag is <863GV5OC> New Tag M864G Error 9 - BIOS Tag is incorrect Enter = Continue Esc = Abort |
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08-23-2006, 07:15 PM
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Don't use that BIOS update. You need to find the updates that are exactly for the board you have otherwise you risk killing the BIOS chip.
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08-23-2006, 07:20 PM
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08-23-2006, 07:52 PM
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08-24-2006, 10:10 AM
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You also need a BARE bootdisk - you have a complete Win98SE startup disk there.
Put a blank floppy into the 98SE machine, open a command prompt, and type: format a: /s This will leave you about 1mb of free space on the disk. Copy the flasher and the bios file onto it. Let's get back to basics - WHY are you flashing your bios? |
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