ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................thought you lived in Davis? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] floppy madness
> hi jim, > > well, i got my wish. > > i was finally able to run the BIOS update utility. it appeared to work > and checksummed ok. > > but now the system is hosed. the CPUs register as "overheated" the > second BIOS starts to post and the heat warning alarm comes on > immediately. can't boot off the cdrom anymore. BIOS doesn't post when > both CPUs are in the machine at the same time. definitely hosed. > > well, i took a gamble and lost. i probably should've just bought > another hard drive instead of trying to update BIOS. but this system > was always a little flakey. all the components were taken from junked > computers. aside from the motherboard, the whole thing was parted out > from friends' computers that were being junked. > > sigh. i guess i'm more upset over the TIME it took to destroy my > computer rather than losing the system. ;-( > > anyway, now i REALLY wish i could take you up on your offer, but we > no longer live in CA. we moved to princeton new jersey. > > i guess this is the end of the thread. sigh. > > pete > > > > > On Wed 28 Apr 04, 10:21 AM, Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > If your wife wants windows 95, I have an old cd with key that can be booted > > and installed by the cd rom. I have installed windows so many times I know > > it almost by heart. If she doesn't want 95 I have 98 (both versions) > > that's just the same. > > > > You can have them so it can be all legal beagle. > > > > Jimbo go go go go! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 9:57 PM > > Subject: [vox-tech] floppy madness > > > > > > > I bought an 80GB drive for an old dual PII motherboard (Gigabit > > > GA-6BXD). Ultimate goal is to move a previous Linux installation which > > > is currently on a failing drive onto the new drive. > > > > > > BIOS can't detect the new drive at all. It hangs on autodetection. > > > > > > Googling revealed that I need to update the BIOS of the motherboard to > > > recognize drives greater than 64GB. > > > > > > > > > I have win95 on a floppy. Goal is to boot win95 and run the executable > > > that upgrades BIOS. > > > > > > The trouble is, BIOS won't boot off the floppy. It doesn't even > > > recognize the floppy drive at boot. > > > > > > * I moved the floppy to another, newer, computer and it booted off > > > the win95 floppy just fine. > > > > > > * Cabling is good. Switching the ribbon around, the drive light > > > doesn't go off, which means I had it right the first time. > > > > > > * I set BIOS to boot off of "A" first. > > > > > > * BIOS floppy autodetect is set to "enabled". > > > > > > * It appears that the computer doesn't even *attempt* to read the > > > floppy at boot. > > > > > > * When I boot Linux, I can mount the floppy with no problems. I just > > > can't boot off it. > > > > > > * In Linux, I used dd to copy and create a new win95 floppy, just in > > > case the problem is that the drive couldn't read the floppy made by > > > another drive. Didn't work. But considering the computer doens't > > > even make the attempt to read the floppy, I'm not surprised. > > > > > > I'm ready to get a new, smaller, drive. Before I do, any suggestions on > > > what could be preventing booting off the win95 floppy? > > > > > > Pete > > > > > > PS- Gigabyte sucks. Their motherboards are decent, but their website > > > crashes galeon and causes havoc and chaos with Opera. Completely > > > non-functional. > > > > > > -- > > > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > > > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > > > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > > > _______________________________________________ > > > vox-tech mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > -- > Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
