bios upgrade for new cpu installation

[ajzchips]

If you don't follow soupy's suggestion, you will have NO luck with ANY version.

[si239]

i did what soupy suggested and downloaded the boot disk for xp pro which is my os and they dont work the 1st disk seems to be corrupt something to do with a missing file it say "INF File txtsetup.Sif is corrupt or missing status 18 Setup cannot continue"ive formatted the 6 disks again and done the same procedure with no avail any ideas???

ive also looked for other links for the same program and i seem to come back to the same link for it.......

also whats the difference between doing a ms-dos boot disk via youre 3.5 inch floppy properties which takes 1 disk or the download www.bootdisk.com which takes 6.

[Denniss]

Have you read my post ???
I told you your old K7S5A Bios has a W2K/XP Floppy Data Corruption BUG
Please create a bootdisk an another machine !!
copy Bios file onto floppy on the other machine too or you will loose your Bios trying to flash a corrupted file !!
http://www.lejabeach.com/ECS/ez.html
>> Flasher /Bios downloadable there

[si239]

did u read my post????
I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO ANOTHER PC!!!!!

[NickS]

did u read my post????
I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO ANOTHER PC!!!!!

Where are you? On a yacht ?

[mittern8]

did u read my post????
I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO ANOTHER PC!!!!!

Well, no reason to shout at Denniss!
Guess you won't make friends this way!

There is a known bug in the old BIOSes for the the K7S5A and as long as you have no chance to access another PC to format a single floppy and to copy the necessary files on to it you'll hardly have chance to flash the BIOS!

In case of that the only solution is to get yourself a preprogrammed chip.
And that's the hole story - bottomline.

Manfred

[Denniss]

If you or a friend have a CD-burner jump to www.ocworkbench.com in the ECS Forum and get the K7S5A Biosupdate CD
Then burn it and boot from CD to update your Bios
Or get it directly from here :
http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~jdebock/K7S5A-Flash-CD.exe

[si239]

youre meant to be a bios guru nicks!!

OH GROW UP YOU KID!!!!!!!

[KachiWachi]

If you don't have access to another PC, then you are SOL I guess... People have told you what you need to do...

NOW PLAY NICE!!

[edwin]

Does this mean you have settled this, else I'll call the cavalry, and they won't play nice, I'll tell you

Options:
Other machine, bootdisk

This machine, bootCD.
You can use a CDRW, this way it won't cost you a recordable.

This machine, seperate harddisk, install win98 from CD, download bios, create bootdisk, flash bios, put winXP harddisk back.

Have fun.