Comments | praest76: My Hardware Curse Continues

praest76

My Hardware Curse Continues

Jun 13, 2007 15:38

I've been meaning to upgrade this Linux desktop machine for a long time. I bought a Socket A motherboard about five or six years back and a low-end Duron in the hope that I would get around to fitting something flashier to it later. Later has become too late and Socket A is now deprecated. I can't really afford to upgrade the motherboard which ( Read more... )

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praest76 June 13 2007, 14:56:39 UTC

Seems I'm not running the latest version of the BIOS for my MoBo and apparently a subsequent BIOS update added Sempron support.

Problem is that I've only flashed a motherboard BIOS twice in my life and in both occasions ended up with a dead motherboard.

I need reassurance or something before I proceed... how likely is it that it's going to go FUBAR?

praest76 June 14 2007, 06:03:29 UTC

Now it seems I can't flash the BIOS anyway as it can only be done from a floppy and after trying two separate floppy drives and three cables I've come to the conclusion that the floppy drive handler on the MoBo must be broken.

Does it never end..?