[wplug] Help with Installing 500GB Western Digital Drive

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:24 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Many times these "workstation/server-class" mainboards can directly read
> the BIOS from a FAT12 formatted floppy _directly_.  I.e., pull up the
> manual and see if there is a "hot key" to directly update the BIOS from
> floppy without having to boot from floppy.
> http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=K8N-DRE 

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 15:17 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: 
> The most I can recommend is Read the Fine Manual (RTFM).  You might be
> pleasantly surprised to find out you can just plop the "binary" BIOS
> update file on that and have the BIOS directly load its update --
> _without_ any OS booting.  In many cases, this is "safer/better" anyway.

Nevermind.  Page 4-2 (60) says it only offers it when the checksum on
the BIOS fails.  Otherwise you have to use either the DOS (boot disk) or
NT (XP) option.


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