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MSI K7T266 Pro Help/BIOs

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zipper1

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My computer is about 2 mounths old, and have had no real problems to speak of untill about 3 weeks ago.
I booted the machine and got an error message Disk I/O Error Status 00008001.
Rebooted machine and it worked fine untill last night when I tried to turn it on and got a blue screen that told
me I had to go into safe mode and disable any new software I installed and unplug any new devices.
I have not installed any new software since the first setup and no new devices.
Tried to go into safe mode with no luck, same blue screen message.
I know that the Bios in my MOBO is the first release and that people have had problems like this with this same
board and Bios But solved the problems with a Bios Flash.
I went to the MSI website and downloaded the the AMI Flash Utillity and latest Bios onto a 3.5 floppy ,
but when i try to extract the files onto the disk per instructions it tells me that there is no room left on the disk for the files.
So I put the flash utility on one disk and Bios on another.
Loaded the Flash Utillity and it says the Chipset/Flash part isn't available press any key to continue.
I put in the disk with the new Bios and press any key and get the same message. Any Ideas?
How do you get the Flash Utillity and extract it to the same disk Ive tried with 4 different disks
formating each time with no luck.

I'm new at this kind of stuff but want to learn

System:
Win2k w/ SP2
MSI K7T266 Pro
AMD Atholon 1.0ghz
ATI Radeon 64DDR
Mushkin 256mb High Performance DDR
Seagate 30g X2 Raid 0
Iomega 12/10/32 CDRW
Generic 52X CD
Iomega zip100
3.5 floppy
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Only download the zip file with the bios inside RIGHT HERE. Unzip the files to a folder and then copy and paste them onto the flopy disk. I don't remember if the files include command.com (and a couple others) needed to make the flopy bootable. If not then format the flopy and then format again and set it for system files only, then copy the bios files over to the flopy and reboot to the flopy. Here are MSI's instructions for flashing the bios. Make sure you turn off bios protection in the current bios before flashing or it won't let you do it. I was going to say good luck but you don't need it, just fallow the instructions and you will be fine.


P.S. I just noticed you are running win2k. You can't make a bootable flopy on that os so you will have to put the bios on a flopy and then take that flopy over to a win9x box and format with the system files only option to add command.com to the flopy. The rest is cake.
 

Thanks SPB , that worked great
I'm starting to get the hang of all this stuff.

Now all I have to do is figure out whats up with my HD's, the OS is not able to format the drives W9X or W2k

Doing a Zero fill format now, 60gb will take forever but I hope it works. 14% and counting

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