Buy a Floppy Drive and keep it simple!
Buy a Floppy Drive and keep it simple!
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I still can't believe with all the money spent on hardware people still refuse to spend $4.00 for a floppy drive. As with any other endeavor a person shouldn't take on the job without the necessary tools.
Enough of the rant. I'm sure I've already posted a link in this thread once on how to set up a flash drive for BIOS flashing.
@emoners........You stil using you're Team Xtreem or you get the OCZ?
Whats up did you still want a bios chip?
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Intel 520 180GB Cherryville
Areca 1231ML ~ 2~ 250GB Seagate ES.2 ~ Raid 0 ~ 4~ Hitachi 5K3000 2TB ~ Raid 6 ~
I have attached a link that I found after going through a ton of problems using a usb floppy trying to install drivers for windows. It appears Windows XP only supports certain drive type to load drivers during install. Everything appears normal and it lets you select the drivers, but then during install process it will prompt you to put the floppy in over and over.
Figured this might save some folks some time and money.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/916196/
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While you are on the subjest of saving people time : the above link refers to problems with USB floppy drives, I think most people are refering to the flat 40 pin ribon type internal drives rather than complicating a simple item with USB.
Like this one : http://www.ebuyer.com/product/74629/...specifications
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Last edited by terroristone; 10-31-2007 at 12:56 AM.
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