Asus Bios! upgrade in win2k?

[Gurm]

You people aren't listening.

There's some setting in the BIOS that's holding down your system. I've flashed various BIOS revisions on different motherboards DOZENS OF TIMES, and never once has NT or Win2k failed to boot because of it.

And yes, some of the motherboards have been ASUS. In fact, I've flashed, under Win2k, the BIOS on:

ASUS P3B-F
ASUS P2B
Epox Via-Thingermajig
ABIT BP6
ABIT BE6
ABIT BF6
ABIT BE6-2
ABIT BX6
ABIT BX6-2
ABIT BH6
Mainboard Dual Server board
Among others...

So there's something you're doing that is HORRIBLY WRONG in the BIOS. Go, figure out your BIOS settings, and then come back. Ok?

Oh, and you DID make sure to use the latest flasher, right? Not the older one? And you DID make sure to flash the boot block as well? And you DID make sure to go into the BIOS and tell it to reset the ESCD information so that it would find the devices and boot properly, right?

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Godblissyou]

Gurm our problem is that we can't make a boot disk ...useless we use a old win98 bootdisk? I updated my bios before too! but we are trying to make the disk to do so in win2k? ...instead of using an old win98, even that i haven't tried but might work...just wanted to know if there is another solution to it.

[Godblissyou]

Gurm our problem is that we can't make a boot disk ...useless we use a old win98 bootdisk?
I updated my bios before too! but we are trying to make the disk to do so in win2k? ...instead of using an old win98, even that i haven't tried it but might work...just wanted to know if there is another solution to it.

[SCompRacer]

I had flashed my ASUS P3B-F BIOS from 1004 to 1005 with a Win98 Boot disk and Win 2000 started with no trouble.

I have not tried it with the Caldera Dr. DOS diskettee created form Drive Image 3.0 in Win 2000, but why buy more DOS when you don't have too?

Say, what ever happened with Caldera suing MS after buying Dr. DOS?

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ASUS P3B-F * P III 500 * 256MB ECC RAM * Two Cheetah LVD's * Barracuda UW * DiamondMAX IDE * Plextor Ultraplex 40max/Plexwriter 12/4/32 * Hitachi IDE DVD * 2940U2W * SB Live * 3Com 905B-TX NIC * 3Com Courier V. Ext. * Hollywood + * Win 98SE, Win 2000 *

[xortam]

Caldera recently won that suit.

[Wombat]

If I recall correctly, Caldera didn't actually "win". It was settled out of court, with MS paying only a few million dollars.

[Godblissyou]

Well everyone, my bios is upgraded to 1012B_DS, had to go over to a friends house to copy the system files and the bios files on a floopy disk. And just do the usually updated bios,everything works fine...doing this process which i don't think it's the best.

[RAB]

OK, I finally had some time to look at it closely and it was a bios setting. The flash changed the hard drive detection to NORMAL from its previous value of AUTO. Stupid me. I changed it back to AUTO and it finally booted properly.

RAB

[SCompRacer]

Until I got real familiar with my BIOS/SCSI BIOS settings, I used to print all the pages with the "print screen" key for easy review. Of course that does not work on all MB BIOS, like a P3B-F.

[Gurm]

So what's the problem with using a Win98 boot disk? It's easy, quick, and the only way to deal with DOS stuff. Until ASUS comes out with a Windows patcher (like, probably never) it's the only way.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.