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Thread ID: 103079 2009-09-11 23:04:00 Creative I/O ULTRA ATA IDE Controller Card installation PROBLEMS. art789 (15230) Press F1
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809195 2009-09-18 23:47:00 Those three are the hidden ones. Remove the ebd.cab. Sweep (90)
809196 2009-09-19 00:08:00 ok i just booted up from the floppy after i added the last file for bios, cuz i removed that ebd cab file. and it sort of worked. i put all thre bootable devices to boot from floppy in the cmos settings, BUT, it said that it couldnt detect on my hard drive a FAT PARTITION, so it wants me to go back and make a FAT partition i guess so it can run DOS??? im not sure, anyone care to shine any lite on this please? adn then it asked me for the windoes 98 disk 2. so thats it. be right back. gotta go kill a mouse!!! eeek!! art789 (15230)
809197 2009-09-19 00:16:00 ok i just booted up from the floppy after i added the last file for bios, cuz i removed that ebd cab file. and it sort of worked. i put all thre bootable devices to boot from floppy in the cmos settings, BUT, it said that it couldnt detect on my hard drive a FAT PARTITION, so it wants me to go back and make a FAT partition i guess so it can run DOS??? im not sure, anyone care to shine any lite on this please? adn then it asked me for the windoes 98 disk 2. so thats it. be right back. gotta go kill a mouse!!! eeek!!
At this point you only want to flash the bios I believe. You don't want a fat partition. Boot off the floppy and I think one of the three files for the BIOS was a filename ending in .bat

So when you boot off the floppy you should be at a prompt that looks like.

A:\ >

At that prompt type the name of the batch file which should auto run the command to flash the BIOS.
Sweep (90)
809198 2009-09-19 00:17:00 If you are flashing a BIOS - the operating system doesn't really come into it. The BIOS is on the Motherboard.

A windows 98 Boot Floppy will say that message if the OS is formatted in NTFS.
wainuitech (129)
809199 2009-09-19 00:43:00 ok . let me reboot and see if i see that prompt A: ... your talking about. art789 (15230)
809200 2009-09-19 02:01:00 yea. i did install my windows with a quick NTFS when it gave me that option in installation.
hey. i was thinking, do you think if i installed windows vista that i could just ignore this bios thing and it would have the option to choose to boot from the card from the bios??
do you think vista's bios would have that option? so as not to have to go through this whole ordeal, i mean, i dont care having vista. i got the disc.
art789 (15230)
809201 2009-09-19 02:05:00 Vista uses the same BIOS you have right now. Sweep (90)
809202 2009-09-19 02:18:00 guess what guys? art789 (15230)
809203 2009-09-19 02:22:00 it worked?!?! GameJunkie (72)
809204 2009-09-19 02:23:00 You have flashed the BIOS? I hope!

I also hope it was the correct bin file.
Sweep (90)
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