Hello All,
I'm officially back from the Dark Side.
For several weeks I was going nuts trying to figure out why Mandrake 9.1 PowerPack disks installed the first time, but never again after I had to replace my Maxtor drive.
And then yesterday morning I remembered that I had updated the BIOS on my motherboard with a Flash utility as part of my getting ready to install Mandrake that first time.
I backed down the BIOS to a prior update (my original BIOS on floppy disk is toast) and re-Flash-ed it. Mandrake 9.1 installed from CDs flawlessly.
I discussed this with a systems guru from the University here in town and he confirmed that BIOS problems usually only show up during Operating System installs. It's interesting that Windows 95B and Windows NT 4.0 would both install, but Bamboo was more sensitive and choked.
I would like to reinstall a virgin BIOS for my ASUS P2B motherboard. It should be version 1002. If anyone has a copy, please email me off list. I'd like to get a copy of it.
Regards, The Other
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