Re: Flashing a bios

Thanks everyone

The symtom with the 5 card USB is that two ports are working ok but I can't
get Windows to recognise anything else plugged in such as an MPEG player or
external HD

The idea of flashing the bios came from an article where it said the power
supply to the PCI slot may need to be changed in the bios to power all these
extra peripherals.

An old bios may have some settings which aren't compatible with a 5port
card.

What do you think?

Thanks



"NobodyMan" <none@xxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
q01qg191ak2s7884q20fbtf9cefq2l59do@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:00:07 +0200, "Dave Neve"
> <NoAddressForSpammers@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>Due to a problem with a 5port USB PCI card which I have added to my
>>computer, I have to flash my bios (in the hope that this will resolve the
>>problem)
>>
>>I'm already nervous as I know this operation can end in tears.
>>
>>Anyway, the instructions told me to extract the files onto a bootable
>>floopy
>>disk and to then boot the system from the disk.
>>
>>But Windows indicated that the files were too large for the disquette
>>although when I looked, this didn't seem to be so.
>>
>>Anyway, I got the files onto the disquette by extracting them first onto
>>my
>>HD and then copying them onto the disquette (yes , they fitted on)
>>
>>Now , when I try to boot from the disquette, the bios tells me that the
>>disquette does not have a recognised system.
>>
>>Any ideas please?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Dave Neve
>>
>>
>>
>>
> BIOS problems and flashes have nothing to do with XP. Post this in a
> relevant group, preferably one that deals with the hardware in
> question.
>


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