IP-35 various little problem

[SteveCliff]

Thaks Buff - if this "real life" thing would back off I'd eventually manage to try out this BIOS .....
Hopefully this weekend

[BUFF]

if this "real life" thing would back off

tell me about it ....

[BUFF]

ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/b...35/m630a12.zip

[SteveCliff]

Well, so much for trying it this weekend!!!

I swear one weekend is going to go as planned .... trying again next weekend!

[BUFF]

I heard a rumour that 13 may be out on Tuesday (i.e. today).

[SteveCliff]

That would be nice timing if it was
Will keep my eyes open on the ftp site you posted.

Thanks for letting me know!

[SteveCliff]

Well, I think God is telling me to put up with the "double boot" problem and stick with the BIOS I have
I tried the normal route of putting the BIOS image on a floppy - or would have done if I could find a single ancient floppy disk that actually formatted correctly.
Then went the "posh" route of creating a bootable USB drive. This was recognised in the BIOS and I made it the primary hard-drive boot and after rebooting it started to boot ok, the USB drive started flickering like mad with lots of disk access and .... nothing. Tried both the "DOS" image files and some Windows 98 image files. Neither worked.
So, I decided to burn everything on to a CD - boot from my Windows 98 CD (yes, I still have one!) and then pop the CD in with the BIOS image etc. All was going fine, until the CD I burnt couldn't be recognised when I tried to run RUNME.BAT ....

At which point I said a couple of swear words, switched everything off, and went and watched telly instead ..!