Re: RAID controllers - BIOS conflict - pls help

On Thu, 18 May 2006 02:13:17 GMT, "nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<mygarbage2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 16 May 2006 07:23:42 -0400, George Macdonald
....snip...
Huh? I haven't seen that in my MSI adventures - in fact, although their
instructions say to boot from floppy, they say *not* to run Flash from the
floppy and recommend strongly to run the flash from a hard drive (FAT,
FAT32) or from a Win98 Startup RAMDRIVE (NTFS). You should be OK booting
from a USB flash drive, though I've never tried it. See here
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html
for a utility to create a bootable USB flash drive, though it needs a
source for the DOS boot files.

Maybe this is an aberration of the memory. Even if they don't say
this now, they used to. Or maybe some other place - like the mobo
manual, not even necessarily the manual for this mobo. I didn't
invent the idea that floppy is a must for flashing BIOS, honestly.
But thanks for the idea to boot from USB - this may be an easy way
out, though not without risk - as in the thread you started recently.
Flashing from a corrupt USB drive may be fatal. However I've seen a
lot more dude floppies than flash drives ;-)
Promise still silent (I don't take for an answer the autoreply that
they received my request) - that much for customer service. Looks
like I am doomed to try and flash that beta BIOS.

NNN

Flashed 1.35 (beta) - didn't fix the issue, but win2k would bluescreen
just before inviting to ctrl-alt-del to log on. Would boot only safe
mode. Reflashing 1.1 fixed the Windows, but still have issues with
RAIDs.

As a side note: an old IDE HDD (under 1GB - don't even understand why
I forgot to throw it away) that already had old win95 system on it was
perfect as a flashing device - I only had to hit F8 and pick Safe mode
- Command prompt option to prevent win95 from trying to start GUI.

Looks like this is my last MSI board. :-( Will be shopping Asus or
Tyan for the next one.

NNN


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