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25888	2001-11-28 11:10:00	Whats involved in flashing the bios? (Have an older 200mhz machine that will only recognise 8Gb of 10Gb HDD) I am using Maxblast but Norton wont install. Can I download software or do I have to purchase? regards Don	Guest (0)
25889	2001-11-28 19:41:00	Some BIOS authors charge and some don't. I flashed an early machine of mine with a free download. On the next machine, the author wanted US$40 - 50 for the upgrade. The process of flashing is pretty simple. Just don't get a power cut in the middle of it (a UPS is good insurance) and don't touch it till it's finished. It's only about 2-3 minutes but, if things go wrong, quite often that's it!	Guest (0)
25890	2001-11-29 08:46:00	Howdy Don ... I went through the same situation as yourself and would like to share the following ... First up, you get your BIOS number that flashes up at the (usually) bottom of your screen when you FIRST turn your machine on ... This number refers to the BIOS, motherboard manufacturer and model ... in my case, the serial number was i430VX-8663-2A59GG0BC-00 Next, I went searching on the web and found m'board sites where I could feed that number into and came up with heaps of info about the manufactures, dates, type and BIOS required. Some sites wanted me to pay for the updated BIOS files, but I was lucky enough to find mine on www.driverguide.com - it had been donated by some guy named Doug and proven to work ... his zip file also provided a text file with excellent info on flashing the BIOS ... However ... I found another solution that wasn't so freaky as flashing the BIOS ... I took my hard-drive to a machine with a more recent BIOS that recognised large disks and used FDisk to partition it ... the 40GB became 5 x 8GB partitions that the old machine recognises. The beauty of this is that I can load a different OS on different partitions (handy for dual-booting)and keep all my data on another. If I need to format again, I only format the partition with the OS on it and reinstall ... means I don't need to go digging for (and reloading) my data as often. Hope this helps. Rz	Guest (0)
25891	2001-11-29 08:48:00	Howdy Don ... I went through the same situation as yourself and would like to share the following ... First up, you get your BIOS number that flashes up at the (usually) bottom of your screen when you FIRST turn your machine on ... This number refers to the BIOS, motherboard manufacturer and model ... in my case, the serial number was i430VX-8663-2A59GG0BC-00 Next, I went searching on the web and found m'board sites where I could feed that number into and came up with heaps of info about the manufactures, dates, type and BIOS required. Some sites wanted me to pay for the updated BIOS files, but I was lucky enough to find mine on www.driverguide.com - it had been donated by some guy named Doug and proven to work ... his zip file also provided a text file with excellent info on flashing the BIOS ... However ... I found another solution that wasn't so freaky as flashing the BIOS ... I took my hard-drive to a machine with a more recent BIOS that recognised large disks and used FDisk to partition it ... the 40GB became 5 x 8GB partitions that the old machine recognises. In your case, you could partition the HDD to have 2 x 4GB and a 2GB partition. The beauty of this is that I can load a different OS on different partitions (handy for dual-booting)and keep all my data on another. If I need to format again, I only format the partition with the OS on it and reinstall ... means I don't need to go digging for (and reloading) my data as often. Hope this helps. Rz	Guest (0)
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