From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261370AbVACAek (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:34:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261360AbVACAei (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:34:38 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:46281 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261370AbVACAdf (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:33:35 -0500 Message-ID: <41D89594.4000103@tmr.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:45:08 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Klaus Kurzmann CC: Terry Hardie , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and Intel Pro/1000 References: <41D7587C.7010200@tmr.com> <20050102151146.GA5424@fluxnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <20050102151146.GA5424@fluxnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Klaus Kurzmann wrote: > * Bill Davidsen [050115 06:13]: > >>Terry Hardie wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>>Since I flashed my bios, no more problems, so I've had no more failures >>>> >>>>I hesitate to try that, since the web page says you must use "real DOS" >>>>and gives instructions for creating the FD using that. Since I lack both >>>>DOS and a floppy, that does present problems... >>> >>> >>>Not even a windows XP machine you can use to make a boot floppy? > > >>I can write the firmware on a CD and use an XP machine in several >>places, but then I have no place to stick the floppy after I write it... > > the P4P800-E should have EZ-flash. No need for boot floppies. Just put > the ROM-Image on a CD (or floppy) and press Alt-F2 on startup: > > http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/ezflash.htm > > And that should do it! Thank you so much. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979