QuadGT bios flash?

[itznfb]

ok, so i'm stuck here with a QuadGT that won't boot and won't load any RAID utility. it has the original BIOS. the problem is, i have no way of flashing the BIOS. if i create a bootable CD with the BIOS file and utilities on it, it says bad boot device. if i create a bootable floppy there isn't enough space on the disk for the BIOS files. and i don't see anywhere in the BIOS where it gives me an option to flash. even if i did, i'm told that doesn't work with beta BIOS.

any help? :confused:

[hadji_a]

create a second floppy with bios etc.
boot with first floppy then swap.

[sc00p]

First you should check from Folder Options that you've Show hidden files and folders -option on.
Then you can see at floppy disk you created that there's lot's files which aren't needed. You need only three files (and the rest of them you can/have to delete):
-IO.SYS
-MSDOS.SYS
-COMMAND.SYS

Then you've enough space for the BIOS files (four files... is readme.txt nor required, duh):
-Runme.bat
-Abitfae.bae
-Awdflash.exe
-BIOS.bin

(BTW: I flashed through FlashMenu... but I cannot recommend the maneuver for anyone. Next time I will use floppy for flashing).

[itznfb]

lol. i can't believe i didn't think of that. thanks.

hopefully it will boot from floppy though. because it certainly doesn't boot from CD.


create a second floppy with bios etc.
boot with first floppy then swap.

[itznfb]

BTW: I flashed through FlashMenu... but I cannot recommend the maneuver for anyone. Next time I will use floppy for flashing.

what is FlashMenu?

[sc00p]

itznfb;2182251']what is FlashMenu?
It's the part of Abit uGuru-utility (but it is completely essential to use the latest Flash Menu (ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/utilities/flashmenu/flashmenu1503.zip)-version). Hope you can flash through floppy :toast: There's lot's of reports cmos gone bad with Flash Menu/windows flashing.

[itznfb]

well, i tried booting with a MS-DOS boot disk, and it gave me a I/O error when trying to boot from it. i tried booting with the partition magic boot disk and that worked, but the bios flash utility failed and just rebooted. i'll try creating the boot disk sc00p suggested later.

[sc00p]

Yeah... just use windows explorer method to create ms-dos start up disk (&then clean that in a way we were talking about).
Bur remember to format that disk first of all ;)

[itznfb]

well, when i boot to the floppy it just restarts when it goes to load the files... any more suggestions? i'm about to throw this board in the garbage