Re: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade
On Tuesday October 1 2002 06:16 am, Kristjan Klementi wrote: So... I wanted to replace my old small HD with new and fast 40G harddrive in my old box that is from year 99. As suspected the new HD was not recognised by bios. Tec support suggested to do the BIOS Upgrade as it should do the job. My only question is how to do that ? The instructions I have, talk about a DOS bootdisk. Well I am 100% windows free and need to do that under Linux. You can d/l dos bootdisks at http://www.bootdisk.com/ Hunt around for one that comes as an image file and use Linux to 'dd' it to a floppy. If you find some that are (Win).zip files, unzip-5.50-2mdk or KDE's archiver can probly handle em. If you find some that are (Win) self-extracting archives, wine can do it. 'Least the newest one can, wine-20020804-3mdk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade
Title: RE: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade On Tuesday October 1 2002 06:16 am, Kristjan Klementi wrote: So... I wanted to replace my old small HD with new and fast 40G harddrive in my old box that is from year 99. As suspected the new HD was not recognised by bios. Tec support suggested to do the BIOS Upgrade as it should do the job. My only question is how to do that ? The instructions I have, talk about a DOS bootdisk. Well I am 100% windows free and need to do that under Linux. You can d/l dos bootdisks at http://www.bootdisk.com/ Hunt around for one that comes as an image file and use Linux to 'dd' it to a floppy. If you find some that are (Win).zip files, unzip-5.50-2mdk or KDE's archiver can probly handle em. If you find some that are (Win) self-extracting archives, wine can do it. 'Least the newest one can, wine-20020804-3mdk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Some motherboards have a jumper that you need to move to short out the last bios settings and then put back on its original position to set the default bios back in place. On mine I jumper pins 2 and 3 to short jp5 and then set back on pins 1 and 2 to reset bios (as an example) Soyo MB. The new hard drive then gets recognized? Just a thought. Dennis M.
RE: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade
If you have tech support on your motherboard USE IT ,you need to be very careful picking the right bio upgrade ,this is changeing the software loaded in a chip on your motherboard get the wrong bio,s and its a door stop.The jumper pin,s is DEFAULT this is what your changeing.I was reformating are H/D two weeks ago and they think the battery went bad but it clearded the rom chip.The motherboard has builtin lock so its change the chip are motherboard and they cost about the same.I changed the motherboard. JOE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] BIOS Upgrade On Tuesday October 1 2002 06:16 am, Kristjan Klementi wrote: So... I wanted to replace my old small HD with new and fast 40G harddrive in my old box that is from year 99. As suspected the new HD was not recognised by bios. Tec support suggested to do the BIOS Upgrade as it should do the job. My only question is how to do that ? The instructions I have, talk about a DOS bootdisk. Well I am 100% windows free and need to do that under Linux. You can d/l dos bootdisks at http://www.bootdisk.com/ Hunt around for one that comes as an image file and use Linux to 'dd' it to a floppy. If you find some that are (Win).zip files, unzip-5.50-2mdk or KDE's archiver can probly handle em. If you find some that are (Win) self-extracting archives, wine can do it. 'Least the newest one can, wine-20020804-3mdk. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Some motherboards have a jumper that you need to move to short out the last bios settings and then put back on its original position to set the default bios back in place. On mine I jumper pins 2 and 3 to short jp5 and then set back on pins 1 and 2 to reset bios (as an example) Soyo MB. The new hard drive then gets recognized? Just a thought. Dennis M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
