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Posted: **Fri May 21, 2004 10:21 pm**

Abit has a program called that will download and flash your bios from windows....I have never used it but it seems to be quite easy and safe.I've always used a boot disk (old fashion way).
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Your probably getting the remove floppy error because it wasnt formatted as a "MS-DOS Startup Disk".Format the disk again and choose "Create MS-DOS Startup Disk",then extract the bios files to the floppy and boot from the disk.From there you should be able to follow the instructions .Considering that you havent done this before,i would give the Flashmenu program a shot

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 11:45 am**

still no luck

i found a copy of flash on old hd when i reconnected it all and tried and selected my bios file but it said it was wrong for my system

when my pc is booting up what key on the keyboard do i press where i will be able to get an option for to enter ms dos prompt mode?
all i can get is how to enter the bios?

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 12:09 pm**

I agree with liljim.
You need to do a lot of reading and reserch before you do a manual flash as the results of a bad flash generaly means a new motherboard.
I would be useing the Flashmenue that liljim suggested

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 12:52 pm**

just tried dos under safe mode and had a system floppy made and copied my bios files i wanted onto it
I raun runme.bat and got these msgs

for 8363-68-6b 6a6lma19c-w date 12/15/2000
flash type amic a29002/5v
file name to program kt7_7n.bin

program files part number doesnt match system

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 1:26 pm**

can someone verify that kt7_7n is correct bios to enable my motherboard to allow over 137gb hard drives?

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 5:12 pm**

Try the flash menu program...it will download the correct bios for you so theres no way to get the wrong one.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 5:19 pm**

i dont have that pc on the internet so cant do that

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 6:20 pm**

The BIOS update you downloaded, was it from the manufacture of the PC or the board manufacture? Is this a home built PC? If it is a factory built PC then you should get the BIOS update from the PC manufacture since the BIOS used by the manufacture is not always the same as what might be provided by a board manufacture.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 6:29 pm**

got download from Abit website, but not sure if they the right ones considering aint working

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 6:47 pm**

I suggest you look for BIOS updates on your PC manufactures website.

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 6:49 pm**

its custom built pc, made it myself

Posted: **Sat May 22, 2004 7:36 pm**

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