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V4 headaches (modified 0 times) dual800 Profile Can ANYONE supply me with a REAL image file?? [xxxx.img]. I dont use linux and am having heck of a time. got'image file' [XXXX.dat] from -the- site [iopener/iopener] as well as others. seems I must have linux to properly unzip these files or I just get xxx.dat's - or is it so ez im overcomplicating? 08-11-2000 16:59:20

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) -pyr- Profile try opening it with winzip. if you dont have winzip, get it. you do not need linux to open the archive. 08-11-2000 19:04:05

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) starfish Profile Also You will Need DOLLY ! If you don't have it, Just Look again & You wil see it. 08-11-2000 19:23:42

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) dual800 Profile D/l V4 'image file'...contains a dat file>15 Mb when unzipped. Had to change chs on hd to 491/490 - will try dolly. Do not understand why file is too big; it will simply be too big for sandisk. Will try anyway. 08-12-2000 04:36:41

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) starfish Profile You are pretending the Hard Drive is the Sandisk ! You want to Flash the BIOS ??? How's it Going ? 08-12-2000 21:07:05

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) starfish Profile I used the First Post of this Thread I-Opener Technical Info Reference (MODERATED) V3 BIOS flash step by step Here's the HotLink http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=verytech&Post=86&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session= I Believe this is Good for All Versions (maybe not V5 ?) (for Users of DOS & DOLLY) I Never had to Set My C/H/S (BIOS set to AUTO & DOLLY took care of the Target Drive.) IBM drives sometimes are Problems (seems Drive must have More C/H/S than you are setting it to. Can't have Less ) I Hope this Helps, * StarFish * 08-12-2000 21:30:32

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) dual800 Profile OK! flashed BIOS w/qnx102. Formatted IBM 3.2G hd making 1st partition active - then formatted with /s and put win98 startup disk in boot partition. Still hard disk boot failure. Tried slave/master combos, etc, etc, and managed to knock sandisk out of hd detection. still no-go. [dd old toshiba drive: 86Mb. when put in as 'c' drive, booted up with Male voice! flashed - flash good. proof is I can get to BIOS setup using just ctrl-alt-esc...no tab key.] Any Ideas??? gonna try moving all v2_q102.dat to sandisk, or wipe sandisk and somehow put DOS on it. Laplink? 08-13-2000 10:21:25

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) dual800 Profile Grrr...flashed to 10-99 bios [v1?] and still get disk boot failure. Still lookin for a valid v1 bios.bin file... 08-13-2000 16:25:15

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) starfish Profile I don't think it is Your BIOS ! the little Drive that Pretended it was the SanDisk, FDISK it, Make it a Bootable DOS Drive, & see if you can get it to Boot. (just a suggestion ) 08-13-2000 21:46:48

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) dual800 Profile OMG! working fine now. You won't believe this: When i had loaded the IBM 3.2G drive and tried to boot - nogo. I wont go through what I tried, before discovering this!---> I had Hd as slave in big system to load. I knew I had to make partition active, which I proceeded to do. upon one of several transfers from sys to Io, I saw a glint. Closer examination I saw that when I had pulled off slave jumper, plastic came off; metal stayed. For 12 hours I was trying to boot off a slave! WIN98se loaded fine, all drivers. GOD. Next up: K6-2+. Much praise for this board. 08-14-2000 03:24:49

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) redwood Profile its the _little things that matter.... :) glad you got it figgered out! 08-14-2000 06:24:29

RE:V4 headaches (modified 0 times) ganda Profile Darn! :o) And I was just about to offer to buy the unit from you too! Have fun. 08-14-2000 19:53:23

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