Experiment #1 = Failed

[tekbro]

You may shoot me now. I tried to stuff my STANDARD flex ATX motherboard into my STANDARD flex atx Burbie case and guess what: IT DID NOT FIT! To top it off, MENSA called to revoke my membership card, finally.

I should have known better, but I really wanted my small form factor experiment to work. I suppose the only thing that will fit in those cases (other than the original mobo) will be an ITX mobo.

All is not lost. I began my experiment again. This time, I acquired an Antec Aria cube case for my board to live in. So far it's great. The CPU didn't melt, but I need a boot disk to install the o/s. Since, the ARIA doesn't have a FDD, it has a card reader. Can you boot from a SD card? I tried to install my old CD burner, but SURPRISE, it didn't fit. It's 8 inches long, too long to install in the Aria. I found that many newer CD drives hover around 170 mm (6.5 inches)or so. So it looks like I'm in the market for a new burner!

 

[Crashman]

You can make a media card bootable, I did it. You need the sys.exe file, on another system with the card reader loaded you can do sys (drive letter) for the letter of you media card. If you're trying to make a 98 style bootdisk all you need to do is add the files from one to the media card.

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[TheRod]

but I need a boot disk to install the o/s.

If you want to install Win2000/WinXP you only have to put your CD as a bootable device in your BIOS (before the HDD). So you will be able to boot from your CD drive.

The ideal boot order :
1. Floppy
2. CDROM
3. HDD

Who needs floppy drive anymore?

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[Mr_Nuke]

Who needs floppy drive anymore?

Those that flash the BIOS.

 

[TheRod]

Those that flash the BIOS.

Wrong! I always update BIOS through Windows BASED software. And if you really need to do this from DOS, you only have to burn a bootable DOS CD.

My main PC don't have a floppy drive and my Laptop have one that I never used. I actually don't know if it works.

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[markgun]

Who needs floppy drive anymore?

You need one for installing RAID drivers! Of course you can slipstream the drivers onto the installation CD, but the floppy's less of a hassle.

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