Hi Michael, > Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit > h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then > do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did > not thought about your modified use.
I agree that unloading TSRs can cause risks, but I would not overdo the 100% step by step part. Remember that even big mainboard makers shipped half-broken modifications of FreeDOS with their products and that for example MS DOS simply is no longer legally available for normal post-Win9x home users. > Ok, well you can experiment if you have the equipment > to remove the flash chip and to flash it from outside. Better BIOSes have various fallback options, such as a second copy of the BIOS or a part which cannot be flashed which is able to load update floppies even after a failed BIOS update. I personally would say that floppy is best (if you still have a drive) followed by harddisk, CD/DVD and then USB. You should avoid loading EMM386 for compatibility reasons but HIMEM should be safe for most BIOS update tools as far as I remember... If your BIOS USB drivers are not stable, it might help to copy all relevant files to RAMDISK before updating the BIOS. You could even BOOT from a RAMDISK, using ISOLINUX / SYSLINUX and MEMDISK. In general, it is bad if you have to load "fancy" drivers such as USB, NTFS or network, between booting and flashing... It is much better if you can put your BIOS update files directly on the drive where you will boot from, so you need no extra driver. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
