Error xɐʇuʎs
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To be honest I'm not sure, all I know is that windows flashing seems to have a much higher failure rate, in most cases when a flash has been buggered and someone comes online to whine about it, they did it through windows, I've been keeping count at sudhian and such places.
Last edited by Snee; 08-01-2005 at 11:58 AM.
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Yes, I know, but why?
I've probably done it 20-30 times without incident and yet others trash their boards on the first try.
Winflash seems so straightforward and simple that I always wonder if the aversion to it is not just a carryover from the pervasive "Windows sucks!" attitude or "A friend of a friend told me.." that we see all the time.
Frankly, so many of the folks who post with problems seem barely capable of turning a PC on, much less flashing their BIOS.
That said, I would stop using it in a heartbeat if I heard a good reason not to....
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
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I don't trust floppies either. In fact, on boards without "windows flashing", I have flashed the BIOS by running the flash program from a HDD instead of a floppy.
Error xɐʇuʎs
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'k, now I'm scawed of flashing from a floppy as well
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Come over to the Dark Side (i.e. WinFlash).
You know you want to.
Don't make me lop off your hand, Luke.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
Error xɐʇuʎs
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Now, I suppose, you and my little brother can rule the galaxy as father and son, or something
He just did the windows thing himself with the latest bios after a lot of testing with another, and it worked.
Dunno' if it solved his problems tho'.
Funny thing: the first time he booted it did some triple beep thing after he was already inBIOSWindows, it didn't do it after I'd had a look in BIOS tho', so I suppose that's all right.
Last edited by Snee; 08-02-2005 at 01:55 PM.
Error xɐʇuʎs
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Problem solved and thanks for the help, people
This latest BIOS did the trick. (Even tho' none of what it was described as fixing was supposed to have anything to do with the issues he had.)
He's also got a working agp/pci lock now, and I've oc'd his processor and tweaked his mem timings.
He set a new personal record in 3d mark 05
Last edited by Snee; 08-02-2005 at 01:59 PM.
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MSI also has this capability, and I also used that instead of a floppy. Hell, I have had problems getting a small file from a floppy, wouldn't trust my floppy drive for nothing ( thats why it took so long for me to revise my bios VB1234Originally Posted by SnnY
'k, now I'm scawed of flashing from a floppy as well)
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Thought so. Glad to hear it worked.Problem solved and thanks for the help, people
This latest BIOS did the trick.
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Glad you sorted it.
I know there was a version of the bios which screwed up the NIC's mac address. It was quickly withdrawn but quite a few copies had been sent out/downloaded so I guess yours was that version.
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