Help! old floppy compatible???

[Babrbarossa]

pant, pant, Hi!-- pant, pant, pant....new computer here-- yippee! Need to flash new bios......need floppy....found 10 year old one.....worry about compatability....help....hurry..:D

[sswilson]

A 10 year old floppy drive is probably a standard one. (I'd guess going back to early 90's for earlier versions).

What mobo are you flashing??? Did you check the website to see if they have a bios flash cd available?

If not, I'd suggest looking into making a bootable cd to run it off of. Winflash is a no-no, floppy flash is better (only if you have a ram disk you can copy the flash program & bios file to), but bootable cd or usb key is the safest.

[Gav]

Originally Posted by Babrbarossa

pant, pant, Hi!-- pant, pant, pant....new computer here-- yippee! Need to flash new bios......need floppy....found 10 year old one.....worry about compatability....help....hurry..:D

Glad to hear your computer finally arrived.:D

10 years old hmm.... I think it should be ok. See if it says 1.44 stamped on it anywhere. If so it will work fine. Good luck and if you need more help let us know.

[UNESCO]

i don't even know where my floppy went, I bought one but it's in a box somewhere now that motherboards have SATA driver support

[Babrbarossa]

yeah 10 years...I think I will try it tommorrow though.. Anyway, I overlcoked the fsb anyway with the original bios-- have a look at the other thread i started and tell me what you think of the results.

[Gav]

I'll always have a FDD lieing around the house and i'll continue to do so until all new MB's can flash from CD or USB key. You can get a FDD for $10.00 so why not.:)

[sswilson]

Have you flashed yet????

General rule of thumb for bios flashing is "if it ain't broke..... don't fix it!!!"

Of all the things you can do to your system, flashing the bios is probably the most dangerous, and is only recommended if there is something in the update that you need.

[Babrbarossa]

Thanks for reassuring me on that- I was thinking I would skip it since things seemed to be going pretty good with it.