On 31 Jul 99, at 13:45, David A. Witt wrote:

> The only problem I have though is I can't flash my BIOS so it reads the
> letters P-III. I keep getting "Insufficient Memory". Which doesn't make
> sense. I tried every way possible to do this. And yes, I have the right
> "Flash" for the BIOS from DFI for my BX board. Memory I do have. I've read
> all the "Read Me" files and the "FYI" files. I've tried every trick I
> know. Tried from Floppy, MSDOS, Command prompt, every which way but loose.
> So, if all I have to do is see P-II instead of P-III 500 at start up, then
> I can live with it. But if anyone has any tricks up their sleeves on the
> Flash, I sure would like to hear them. Thankyou all again (some what
> belated) who took the time to respond, I really appreciate it.

  First of all, I want to mention that I would never have seen this part
of David's message if Ben Moore hadn't quoted it in his reply.  David,
whatever mail editor you use is configured to not always insert "hard"
line-breaks, and the result is that if a paragraph goes over a certain
length, my mail program (Pegasus) simply drops the last part.


  I've run into this scenario several times.  What I do is format a floppy,
including transferring system files, so that it is bootable.  I put the flash
utility software and the new BIOS image on the floppy, too.
  Then I boot from the floppy.  [You might have to adjust your CMOS settings
for this to work.]  The "system files" on a boot floppy aren't sufficient to
run the GUI, so this leaves me at a "DOS" command-line prompt with most
conventional memory free.  From here, I can run the flash utility, saving a
copy of the old BIOS and installing the new.  Then reboot, remembering to
remove the floppy.  [Note that this works equally well when the hard drive OS
isn't DOS-based (NT, Linux, ...).

  On some systems, flashing the BIOS will also reset all the CMOS settings.
ON others it doesn't -- but maybe it should.  In either case, you should
check and make sure that all are still set the way you want them.


David G

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