gordythegouge Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Hi,I'm trying to upgrade the BIOS of my ASROCK K7S8X.3.0 Motherboard and unfortunately all I get when I boot up with the floppy disk inserted is:searching for boot record from floppy....OKDisk I/O Errorreplace the disk, and then press any keyI've formatted the floppy from windows with the MS-Dos start up disk option and added the ASROCK Flash Utility and BIOS Upgrade but until I get the all important A:/ up and flashing when I boot up I'm getting nowhere. I've visited the Microsoft site and added the Ntldr and Ntdetect.com files from my I386 folder to the floppy but still to no avail..........can anyone help?gordythegouge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Do you have a good reason for updating the BIOS or do you just like to live dangerously?If your update/upgrade goes wrong you end up with a box of expensive junk.Think carefully before you proceed and ask yourself if it's really worth the risk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 This all goes back to my problems with inserting a cd/dvd into either of my drives......the PC reboots!! Now the asrock site mentions in it's BIOS updates that there was a problem with an Aopen DVD/Cdrw drive.......which I have on my system.......and XP! So basicaly, I'm just trying to resolve whatever conflict is causing my PC to keep on rebooting!!! My drives are both on the secondary eide side, only the hard drive is on the primary eide, and they have had their Master/slave jumpers set correctly so I'm at my wit's end really as to what the problem is..................unless.............the PSU isn't up to scratch.....what do you think?gordy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Have you referred to my reply to your other thread?This may explain some of your problem.Your PSU suggestion may be important. What power is it?If you really want to persist in BIOS upgrades (VERY inadvisable in my opinion) then do you have floppy as first boot device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 300W Generic and I've set the Floppy as first bootup device!gordy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 300W is not very much for a modern computer - especially as you are expecting to run two optical drives simultaneously in addition to all the other components.Is Event viewer giving any information about what's happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Sorry.. I'm not familiar with the terminology you're using... Event Viewer>?>? What? Where? And how do i use it?thegouge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 ASRock - How to update biosEvent Viewer - Start > run > compmgmt.msc > event viewer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Thanks for the info.....when i get off shift I'll give it a go.......as for the Asrock BIOS Info..... I've used it but until I can actually make a bootable Disk which can be read by the PC on Bootup......I'm back to square one!!! I'm rapidly becoming follicly challenged over this one!!thegouge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Sorry.. I'm not familiar with the terminology you're using... Event Viewer>?>? What? Where? And how do i use it?http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;308427&sd=techI assume you are running XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Nope........I'm coming to the conclusion .......XP is running me!!!!! Or is that ruining me?thegouge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 I've run the Event Viewer and I need to know what I should be looking for.....there are info tabs,warning tabs and errors.........what should I be looking for as an indication of the problem?thegouge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Forget about "info" but give us an indication of the warnings and errors. If you double click on a warning or error you can find out more about it and, perhaps, there may be a link to more information at Microsoft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordythegouge Posted April 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 I thought I may have cracked the Bootup disk problem by going to the Microsoft site and Downloading the Windows XP Pro with SP2 Utilty for making a set of bootup disks! However........when I tried to run the utility, all I got was the MS-Dos box opening up followed by this window:16 Bit Ms-Dos SubsystemC:\Documen~1\Gordon~1\Local~1\Temp\IXP000.TMP\Makeboot.ExeC:Windows\System32\Autoexec.NT.The System File Is Not Suitable For Running MS-Dos and Microsoft Windows ApplicationsChoose Close To Terminate ApplicationDo you think Bill Gates has taken a personal dislike to me?Any help appreciated!thegouge :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 I still think that you are taking the wrong approach here and that a BIOS upgrade is not the remedy to your problems.Be that as it may, if you are upgrading/updating the BIOS, forget about anything to do with Windows. The BIOS is involved on a computer long before Windows gets a look in, so to speak. The BIOS upgrade floppy you have made should function as soon as you boot up the computer. If it doesn't, there are three possibilities: the disk is duff, the BIOS is duff and cannot be altered or you don't have floppy set as your first boot device.One thing that does occur to me is that you must boot from cold with the upgrade floppy in place. That means switching off ALL power to the machine, including the switch on the PSU. It would be best to let it rest for a while for internal capacitors to discharge and then try again.As I keep saying, though, I don't think the BIOS is your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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