flash bios from CD?

This did not work. I put the bios in a temp folder and then went to a
command prompt but when I run the Awardflash program it says there is no Win
xp support. I then tried booting safe mode command prompt only but that
didn't work either so I may just end up replacing the floppy unless someone
can tell me how to make a bootable dos cd.

"Jim B." <jburghdoff.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:m%6qc.2234$rG6.712@newssvr32.news.prodigy.com...
 > I don't know if its possible but it seems like it should be if your CD
drive
 > has DOS support. It is possible to do it from your hard drive. Again it
must
 > be done in DOS. Just place the unziped BIOS file and the Awardflash
program
 > somewhere that you can find it in DOS on the hard drive.
 > "Cletus Stripling" <cletus.TakeThisOut@uga.edu> wrote in message
 > news:2gs11eF63vd5U1@uni-berlin.de...
  > > Is it possible to flash the bios of my Soyo Dragon Plus board using a CD
  > > rather than a floppy? My floppy has gone bad and am thinking of not
  > > replacing it since I rarely if ever use it.
  > >
  > >
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: flash bios from CD? 

Random reboots seemed solved for the moment. I had upgraded my ram from
512MB Crucial to 1GB. 512 Crucial and 512 Kingston.

I changed dram setting in bios from 'by spd' to 'manual' and set to 100. All
seems stable for the moment.

"Cletus Stripling" <cletus DeleteThis @uga.edu> wrote in message
news:2gs11eF63vd5U1@uni-berlin.de...
 > Is it possible to flash the bios of my Soyo Dragon Plus board using a CD
 > rather than a floppy? My floppy has gone bad and am thinking of not
 > replacing it since I rarely if ever use it.
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: flash bios from CD? 

Sorry, I should have added that you would need to boot the computer with a
DOS boot disk. WinXP doesn't have true DOS support so as you found out
Awardflash doesn't have XP support. You could have booted with a Win98 or
any DOS boot disk to do as I said and you can also find these disks a
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_blank">www.bootdisk.com</a> .
"Cletus Stripling" <cletus DeleteThis @uga.edu> wrote in message
news:2gt2drF6h98lU1@uni-berlin.de...
 > This did not work. I put the bios in a temp folder and then went to a
 > command prompt but when I run the Awardflash program it says there is no
Win
 > xp support. I then tried booting safe mode command prompt only but that
 > didn't work either so I may just end up replacing the floppy unless
someone
 > can tell me how to make a bootable dos cd.
 >
 > "Jim B." <jburghdoff DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
 > news:m%6qc.2234$rG6.712@newssvr32.news.prodigy.com...
  > > I don't know if its possible but it seems like it should be if your CD
 > drive
  > > has DOS support. It is possible to do it from your hard drive. Again it
 > must
  > > be done in DOS. Just place the unziped BIOS file and the Awardflash
 > program
  > > somewhere that you can find it in DOS on the hard drive.
  > > "Cletus Stripling" <cletus DeleteThis @uga.edu> wrote in message
  > > news:2gs11eF63vd5U1@uni-berlin.de...
   > > > Is it possible to flash the bios of my Soyo Dragon Plus board using a
CD
   > > > rather than a floppy? My floppy has gone bad and am thinking of not
   > > > replacing it since I rarely if ever use it.
   > > >
   > > >
  > >
  > >
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: flash bios from CD? 

Glad to hear you found a cure for your problem, you didn't state in your
first post that you were having this type of problem. All Soyo motherboards
are very picky on memory. When using a Soyo motherboard you should always
buy the best memory you can afford to limit problems.
"Cletus Stripling" <cletus.DeleteThis@uga.edu> wrote in message
news:2gt8mrF6btdvU1@uni-berlin.de...
 > Random reboots seemed solved for the moment. I had upgraded my ram from
 > 512MB Crucial to 1GB. 512 Crucial and 512 Kingston.
 >
 > I changed dram setting in bios from 'by spd' to 'manual' and set to 100.
All
 > seems stable for the moment.
 >
 > "Cletus Stripling" <cletus.DeleteThis@uga.edu> wrote in message
 > news:2gs11eF63vd5U1@uni-berlin.de...
  > > Is it possible to flash the bios of my Soyo Dragon Plus board using a CD
  > > rather than a floppy? My floppy has gone bad and am thinking of not
  > > replacing it since I rarely if ever use it.
  > >
  > >
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: flash bios from CD? 

Thanks for all the tidbits and help.

"Jim B." <jburghdoff DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ssoqc.8890$eH1.4892929@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com...
 > Sorry, I should have added that you would need to boot the computer with a
 > DOS boot disk. WinXP doesn't have true DOS support so as you found out
 > Awardflash doesn't have XP support. You could have booted with a Win98 or
 > any DOS boot disk to do as I said and you can also find these disks a
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_blank">www.bootdisk.com</a> .
 > "Cletus Stripling" <cletus DeleteThis @uga.edu> wrote in message
 > news:2gt2drF6h98lU1@uni-berlin.de...
  > > This did not work. I put the bios in a temp folder and then went to a
  > > command prompt but when I run the Awardflash program it says there is no
 > Win
  > > xp support. I then tried booting safe mode command prompt only but that
  > > didn't work either so I may just end up replacing the floppy unless
 > someone
  > > can tell me how to make a bootable dos cd.
  > >
  > > "Jim B." <jburghdoff DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
  > > news:m%6qc.2234$rG6.712@newssvr32.news.prodigy.com...
   > > > I don't know if its possible but it seems like it should be if your CD
  > > drive
   > > > has DOS support. It is possible to do it from your hard drive. Again
it
  > > must
   > > > be done in DOS. Just place the unziped BIOS file and the Awardflash
  > > program
   > > > somewhere that you can find it in DOS on the hard drive.
   > > > "Cletus Stripling" <cletus DeleteThis @uga.edu> wrote in message
   > > > news:2gs11eF63vd5U1@uni-berlin.de...
   > > > > Is it possible to flash the bios of my Soyo Dragon Plus board using
a
 > CD
   > > > > rather than a floppy? My floppy has gone bad and am thinking of not
   > > > > replacing it since I rarely if ever use it.
   > > > >
   > > > >
   > > >
   > > >
  > >
  > >
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:48:20 GMT, "Jim B." <jburghdoff.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
wrote:

 >Glad to hear you found a cure for your problem, you didn't state in your
 >first post that you were having this type of problem. All Soyo motherboards
 >are very picky on memory. When using a Soyo motherboard you should always
 >buy the best memory you can afford to limit problems.
 >"Cletus Stripling" <cletus.DeleteThis@uga.edu> wrote in message
 >news:2gt8mrF6btdvU1@uni-berlin.de...
  >> Random reboots seemed solved for the moment. I had upgraded my ram from
  >> 512MB Crucial to 1GB. 512 Crucial and 512 Kingston.

To add to Jim B: with a picky board like the SOYO (and I'd do this
with any high-speed cpu like AMD XP#### or P4), best is for all the
memory to be the same brand/kind.

On flashing--there is a flashing utility that runs under Windows:
Winflash. Check a search engine or two.
--
-denny-

Some people are offence kleptomaniacs -- whenever they see
an offence that isn't nailed down, they take it
--David C. Pugh, in alt.callahans<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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