Recent content by Brickster

Me THREE!:cool:

Did I say you are the MAN!? I got the Asian version of the F13, and loaded through the BIOS/CMOS QFLASH utility, rather than the other option...@BIOS, which fooked me in the first place. This worked. I am now writing to you on my formerly dead computer, with the updated F13 BIOS...

ViRGE, you are a genius. That worked. It loaded the archaic F3, but XP booted. Praise the lord!!!! Wow. I am just flabberghasted that the latest BIOS would not work. Guess I have to take back all my nasties about the dual bios, since that seemed to have saved me. Now, the question...

OK. ViRGE, I see you've done this a few times, as deleting Autoexec worked on my other backup disk. While I was making boot disks, I did go with the notion that the latest BIOS might be a total piece of sheet. So, I made a boot disk with the previous version. Caldera finally loaded...

Well, that seemed to at least do something different. Does a post, then the last thing it says... Seems better, but er...just can't get that freakin' prompt.

Ok, I went to bootdisk, created the disk for the A: drive. I saw the autoexec.bat and the command.exe loaded, took the disk home, and gave it a whirl. I fired up the box, who's non-function is ruining my life, went into the CMOS, and adjusted the boot sequence to boot from floppy...

Also, can I do the same thing on a CD-R and boot from that?

ViRGE - Thanks Brother! I really appreciate the advice. I will try this tomorrow morning and let you know how it goes. In the meantime, I am also logging questions to Gigabyte support. They are not very responsive though. Thanks again.

Yes, I have a CD Burner on another computer, and a floppy drive. What next?

ViRGE - Thanks for the reply. Yes, I can boot at least to CMOS. And it does show the option for the "QFLASH", but when you hit that option, and enter, you get a black screen with a blinking cursor. Keyboard does not affect cursor. Essentially, the included utility does not load from CMOS.

Pictures, music, photos, work, spreadsheets, financials, etc. All just sitting there one minute, trapped in a machine the next. I know I can hook up the external, get a new computer, and extract, but c'mon!! We're talking about a simple BIOS flash you a-holes! And, don't you just love that...

Sieis - thanks for the reply!!! Per the PSU, it was an Antec straight from the store, in plastic, that made a little squeal when I plugged it in an flipped the switch. When the test did not work, I just returned it. No, I left it in the case, took out the RAM, video card, sound card, and...

bump.

"hope just that got killed" Sweet - can't wait to go through all that to only one conclusion. Thanks for the reply. To answer your questions.. iPOD still works System - No fans, no nothing. Even after replacing the PSU. I don't see any lights. It's as if the power doesn't even...

Anyone?