flashing bios from diskette
Haines Brown
of files needed to create a boot floppy to flash the BIOS of my D850MV
motherboard.
The extraction created a set of files in
C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/_ISTMP1.DIR/_ISTMP0.DIR that included a 25dc.DLL, two
.bmp graphic files, a license text, and a value.shl.
Intel's directions say that to create the bootable flash diskette,
insert a diskette and then execute the RUN.BAT file. However, the
extracted files don't include any RUN.BAT or executable files.
What to do? Intel no longer supports the MB.
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Haines Brown
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John Dulak
Haines:
Perhaps the extraction put the file somewhere else. Look in the folder
where you saved the origonal file. You could also open a DOS (Command
Line) window and try dir c:\run.bat /s
This will search your HDD for a file named RUN.BAT starting in the roor
of the C: drive and include all sub directories.
HTH & HL
John
P.S. Since it was a "flakey: archive to start with yoy umay want to open
it with notepad to see what it is going to do. Wouldn't hurt to run a
virus scan either before you turn this thiing loose on your MB BIOS.
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Haines Brown
for a flash utility for my motherboard, and got my hands on the
Express version which presumes I'll run it under Windows. I went back
to the Intel site and dug down (my first look was not successful), and
finally encountered the version that creates a boot diskette. I'm all
set to go with that.
I'm a bit paranoid about flashing, for there's all kinds of
warnings. But it seems the worst one can do is to end up with settings
that don't support my hardware, but that is easily fixed. I wonder if
there are other hazards I'm not aware of. I flashed my motherboard
when I first got it, and it seemed to go easily then.
Thanks for your reply. It helped me look a little more closely at
things and discover my foolish error.
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John Dulak
Haines:
The WORST that can happen is you end up with a system that may not even
boot!!! I once flashed the BIOS on an old MB with a file that was for a
different MB and that FUBARs things quite throughly. I DID manage to
recover but it took a few weeks and another PC and a soldering iron.
Have Fun.
John
MOre info if you get into trouble:
http://www.rainbow-software.org/hardware/hotflash.html
Haines Brown
I did manage to flash my BIOS sucessfully, and doing do allowed me to
add a second SCSI adapter (Adaptec 29320). The reason I was anxious to
do that was I'm tracking down a hardware problem preventing me from
booting from hard disk (I boot from diskette). I thought it might have
been my SCSI adapter (Adaptec 39160), and so now I know it was not.
Roughly, it seems that CMOS can't locate my boot partition or get it
to run. After running the ROM BIOS on my video card and SCSI cards, it
should copy the MBR of the boot device and execute it, but instead I
get garbage. Normally, such problems would result in a standard error
message. It may be that my CMOS is faulty (All bootable disks
affected; battery is apparently OK; I can boot ok from diskette).
Unfortunately, my motherboard is a bit too old to be supported, and so
I must rely on googling (no luck so far), or asking in a forum. Which
newgroup do you think I should head for?
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Haines Brown
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John Dulak
Haines:
Never messed with SCSI as a boot device myself myt there is lits of
info.
comp.periphs.scsi
comp.periph.scsi
http://storage.ittoolbox.com/documents/document.asp?i=1488
http://scsi.radified.com/scsi_03a.htm
HTH & GL
John
Haines Brown
card working only showed that my boot problem is not in SCSI, but
apparently lies in the motherboard CMOS. It was a
/hardware/motherboard/BIOS newsgroups that I was looking for.
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John Dulak
Sorry about that try here:
alt.comp.bios
comp.sys.intel