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cant flash bios
Name: gorge Date: August 27, 2002 at 18:19:13 Pacific
Comment:
i want to flash my bios, but when im in the command promt and type c:(thats with a startup disk) its says that C: is an invalid drive letter!!(im running a dual boot with linux , that could be de problem?)if not any ideas? thanks in advance
Name: Mandy Date: August 27, 2002 at 19:01:36 Pacific
Reply:
I spent yesterday wrestling with the same problem. Couldn't get to the C drive, when you boot off "xp boot diskette". Finally, I just took the motherboard out and put it in another computer, booted with 98 disk and got the flash to work.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kerry Date: August 27, 2002 at 19:04:44 Pacific
Reply:
I don't think dual-booting is causing any problems. However, could it be that the boot floppy you are using does not support your IDE or SCSI controller?
Summary: thanks for your input but im going nowhere fast When i get into any kind of dos (XP`s startup dos), when i try to run the exe file to flash i get a general protection fault. when in ms dos i get the s...
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