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BIOS Flash problems
I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to
flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe). The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". How do I make a bootable disk? What I was doing was formatting the disk in the floppy drive, choosing the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option. What Gives? Does it have something to do with running XP? Here's my info: BIOS Date: 08/03/00 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG BIOS ID: 08/03/2000-8363-686A-S2390C OEM Sign-On: TYAN TRINITY KT V1.03a Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2 Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h OS: WinXP CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) 800 Mhz MAX: 500 Mhz BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes BIOS ROM Size: 256K Memory Installed: 448 MB Memory Maximum: 512 MB Memory Slot 01: 256 MB Memory Slot 02: 128 MB Memory Slot 03: 64 MB Memory Slot 04: 0 MB Also, is this a good board? |
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I/O error? Sounds like you could be using a dodgy disk. You tried using a
different one? "Bradley Betz" wrote in message ... I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe). The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". How do I make a bootable disk? What I was doing was formatting the disk in the floppy drive, choosing the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option. What Gives? Does it have something to do with running XP? Here's my info: BIOS Date: 08/03/00 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG BIOS ID: 08/03/2000-8363-686A-S2390C OEM Sign-On: TYAN TRINITY KT V1.03a Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2 Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h OS: WinXP CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) 800 Mhz MAX: 500 Mhz BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes BIOS ROM Size: 256K Memory Installed: 448 MB Memory Maximum: 512 MB Memory Slot 01: 256 MB Memory Slot 02: 128 MB Memory Slot 03: 64 MB Memory Slot 04: 0 MB Also, is this a good board? |
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Yep. Same thing.
"Alex" wrote in message ... I/O error? Sounds like you could be using a dodgy disk. You tried using a different one? "Bradley Betz" wrote in message ... I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe). The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". How do I make a bootable disk? What I was doing was formatting the disk in the floppy drive, choosing the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option. What Gives? Does it have something to do with running XP? Here's my info: BIOS Date: 08/03/00 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG BIOS ID: 08/03/2000-8363-686A-S2390C OEM Sign-On: TYAN TRINITY KT V1.03a Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2 Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h OS: WinXP CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) 800 Mhz MAX: 500 Mhz BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes BIOS ROM Size: 256K Memory Installed: 448 MB Memory Maximum: 512 MB Memory Slot 01: 256 MB Memory Slot 02: 128 MB Memory Slot 03: 64 MB Memory Slot 04: 0 MB Also, is this a good board? |
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On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:50:18 -0400, "Bradley Betz"
wrote: I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe). The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". How do I make a bootable disk? What I was doing was formatting the disk in the floppy drive, choosing the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option. What Gives? Does it have something to do with running XP? Here's my info: BIOS Date: 08/03/00 BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG BIOS ID: 08/03/2000-8363-686A-S2390C OEM Sign-On: TYAN TRINITY KT V1.03a Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2 Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h OS: WinXP CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) 800 Mhz MAX: 500 Mhz BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes BIOS ROM Size: 256K Memory Installed: 448 MB Memory Maximum: 512 MB Memory Slot 01: 256 MB Memory Slot 02: 128 MB Memory Slot 03: 64 MB Memory Slot 04: 0 MB Also, is this a good board? Possibly you don't have a bootable HDD attached and haven't set the bios to boot from floppy? As for the "good board" question, Tyan makes decent enough boards though that particular board uses the Via chipset with 686 southbridge, which has the potential for IDE corruption or issues with some sound cards, particularly Creative Labs Soundblaster Live, and/or poor performance with any PCI-intensive cards, activities, like running a RAID controller or Gigabit NIC, etc. Best solution is to beware of Soundblaster issue, and be sure to use fairly recent Via 4in1 driver. If you HDD storage (or optical drive burning) includes use a large, dozens of MB filesizes you might want to run CRC checks on the files to be sure they're not being corrupted. Updating the BIOS is also a good idea, but since that's exactly the goal it needs no further mention. |
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On Tue, 18 May 2004 20:21:15 -0400, Trent©
wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:50:18 -0400, "Bradley Betz" wrote: I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe). The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". Do it over again. There may be a minor glitch...that's become a problem because of the new BIOS. Now it occurs to me, was the bios already flashed or this is the attempt at flashing it? |
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This is the attempt - the bios hasn't been flashed yet. If it was, I'd be
finished, and booting into the OS. "kony" wrote in message ... On Tue, 18 May 2004 20:21:15 -0400, Trent© wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:50:18 -0400, "Bradley Betz" wrote: I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe). The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". Do it over again. There may be a minor glitch...that's become a problem because of the new BIOS. Now it occurs to me, was the bios already flashed or this is the attempt at flashing it? |
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Bradley Betz's log on stardate 18 svi 2004
The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk. I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it says there's an "I/O error". How do I make a bootable disk? Properly installed OS? Lousy cabel? -- If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do ?" "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area." |
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