Re: [PLUG] Dell Optiplex 360 BIOS update

2018-03-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I did update bios on these boxes using a floppy drive. I think that was the last time I used /touched one. I wouldn't know where to start now days, probably not by getting a floppy drive going again, even if I would have one. -T On Mar 13, 2018 6:54 AM, "Rich Shepard" wrote: > A while ago I

Re: [PLUG] Dell Optiplex 360 BIOS update

2018-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Ken Stephens wrote: Is the file on the flash drive an ISO image? If so, try the external USB CDROM Drive. If it does not work, you have lost nothing. Ken, No. The BIOS is an .exe file and there are several files for MS-DOS so the flash drive is seen as a bootable flopp

Re: [PLUG] Dell Optiplex 360 BIOS update

2018-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps with no disk in the optical drive and the flash drive plugged in the system will boot from it. ... Will try it and post the results later this morning. Sigh. Didn't work. The option of an _internal_ floppy drive was in the boot selection tr

Re: [PLUG] Dell Optiplex 360 BIOS update

2018-03-13 Thread King Beowulf
On 03/13/2018 07:15 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Perhaps with no disk in the optical drive and the flash drive plugged in >> the system will boot from it. ... Will try it and post the results later >> this morning. > >   Sigh. Didn't work. > >   The opt