On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:13 AM, lee<l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:12:46AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> lee wrote: >>> At Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:22:08 -0500, >>> Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Not being able to update the BIOS is not an ASUS problem. Actually, >> ASUS is very good about updating their BIOSes. I never heard of a board >> you couldn't update. What model was it? > > A8NK or something ... You couldn't update the BIOS without having a > floppy disk drive and a disk to boot some DOS version from or running > Windoze. I haven't had a floppy in over a decade, and I don't have > Windoze. I could have booted from CD, but they didn't have anything to > boot from CD and then update the BIOS. > >> If you don't like ASUS, go with MSI. > > Yeah, I've never had any problems with MSI boards. The Asus board I > had, I only bought because the Asus one was supposed to be > faster. Since I had seen a lot of Asus boards for PII-350s working > just fine and Asus had (has?) a good reputation, I thought I'd try > Asus instead of MSI. > > With the Asus board, I had problems with SATA disks disconnecting, and > I thought the board was at fault. But it turned out that the problem > was the disks, not the board. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
Asus BIOSes can be upgraded using a usb memory since the release the first Pentium 4/Athlon XP mainboards. So there's no need to have a floppy disk unit or even install windows in order to upgrade the BIOS. -- Usuario Linux Registrado #452368 Usuario Ubuntu Registrado #28025 "Doing a thing well is often a waste of time." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //Netbook - HP Mini 1035NR 2GB 60GB - Windows XP/Ubuntu 9.04 //Desktop - Core 2 Duo 1.86Ghz 8GB 500GB - Windows 7(testing) //Desktop - Core 2 Duo 2.40Ghz 8GB 320GB - MacOS Leopard //Desktop - Athlon 64 2.7Ghz 8GB 400GB - Ubuntu Jaunty //Server - Pentium D 3.2Ghz 8GB 1TB - Debian Lenny //Server - Celeron 1.8Ghz 1GB 160GB - Pfsense //Server - NSLU2 266Mhz 32MB 1TB - Debian Lenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
