On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > So am I. And one things a bit odd. I went to the Biostar site and > grabbed the latest bios for that board, or so I thought, but after > sticking it on a floppy (the bios builtin updater only looks on the > floppy) and haveing this on the floppy: > > [root@coyote root]# ls -l /mnt/floppy > total 958 > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 31058 Oct 17 2000 awdflash.exe > -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 54645 May 31 1994 command.com > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 13 Mar 10 1994 config.sys > -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 40774 May 31 1994 io.sys > -r-xr--r-- 1 root root 38138 May 31 1994 msdos.sys > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 290816 Jul 21 14:59 ncd0311.bin > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 262144 Jan 21 2003 origbios.bin > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 262144 Sep 19 2002 Vib0919b.bin > > The bios updater cannot see the supposedly correct ncd0311.bin file. > It was named .exe before but IIRC I had to rename the Vib0919b.exe to > a .bin. Its also too big, so obviously something is missmatched. > The last 2 files are those for the older M7VIB mobo, with the last one > being the one that put the bios based updater in the bios so we don't > have to run awdflash.exe first. Gene, Are you sure the .exe files were not self-extracting ZIPs? It's unfortunate if that's the case as now you will need MS-DOS (with or without the GUI). Bob...
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