Recent content by jimkselsf

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    Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

    Thanks again sna. I've already tried all those steps before I got in this forum. As I was saying, I formatted the last small portion (1.9gb) of my solid state disk with the fat32 file system, copied the two flash files to it (for some reason Win 7 didn't show the autoexec.bat file which is...
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    Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

    Here's the link, sna: http://www.overclock.net/t/1016479/solved-q-flash-not-picking-up-my-usb It was posted by Rowey who said: "Done it now mate, i found a external floppy drive and flashed it with that, worked like a charm. Now using F10 instead of F4."
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    Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

    Thanks Sna. I've just formatted the last portion (1.9GB) of my SSD to FAT32, copy the 3 flash files to it, reboot, hit F8, same result: No Drive Found! Qflashdoes not read compressed files. Maybe it's just like you said,"Lots of cheaper motherboards don't support that, Esspecially of the H61...
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    Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

    Thank you USARet. I know Adobe InDesign took over the ancient PageMaker, but it's too expensive and, I have been using PageMaker all these years and it's all I need. I think that I did try the compatibility mode for XP under Win 7 before without any luck. I'll try to find out how to run XP in a...
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    Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

    Thanks everyone for your inputs. BTW my present BIOS version is F3. As I was saying, I was struggling to flash it with the pen drive following all kinds instructions put forth in the MB's manual and all forums, it returns a "no drive found" every time. But it did recognize my external floppy...
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    Flashing BIOS with a floppy disk?

    how can I copy a 4 mg qflash file to a 1.44 mb floppy to update my bios? my mobo is a gigabyte h61n-usb3. i have been struggling to update my bios via a pen drive without luck. The flash utility keeps saying "no drive found" no matter where i plug it to. The best I encountered was when I plugged...