"Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com> wrote: > > You can't reload the bios. The bios controls booting from the floppy > drive, so there's no way to reload it. Chicken and egg problem. True, but many systems require a valid checksum on the BIOS, or they resort to running a hard-coded version that can at least handle reading a new flash off of a floppy. I ran into this one time.. I'm glad that it actually worked, or I probably would have broken something either in the computer or in me.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Bush makes me wanna Ralph. / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011205/f9e876ba/attachment.pgp