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    Faulty Power Supply?

    I have a Gigabyte based board that works fine for a week or so, shutting it down each day after use. Eventually the PC powers on and no video is seen. There are no BIOS error beep codes, and I really have no way of knowing whether or not it loads Windows without video. The first time it...
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    BIOS upgrade

    Uncle Bob, You are correct in that the BIOS has the floppy enabled, and under detailed boot window shows the FDD as 3.5" - yet putting a bootable floppy in the drive results in nothing more than checking (FDD light comes on) and bypassing. I can access the USB drive in DOS, but the BIOS does...
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    Mad Dog external USB floppy drive

    Is the drive USB 2.0 specific, or backwards compatible to 1.1? Can't imagine it requiring 2.0, but just a thought.
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    BIOS upgrade

    I've got an HP n5420 that someone gave me for free due to a power surge causing some problems. I need to upgrade the BIOS, which requires floppy in disk drive and issue a restart. Here is a quick list of the current status quo: 1. The CD/DVD ROM drive won't read CDs, so I can't boot to it (I...
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    BIOS upgrade help

    I've got an HP n5420 that someone gave me for free due to a power surge causing some problems. I need to upgrade the BIOS, which requires floppy in disk drive and issue a restart. Here is a quick list of the current status quo: 1. The CD/DVD ROM drive won't read CDs, so I can't boot to it...