[H-GEN] Accessing large disks using an old BIOS

[Frank Brand]

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>Erm, this is a (roughly) 7 year old DX4/100.  I don't have access to the
>facilities required to do BIOS upgrades on this sort of thing any more
>8^)



Well, really it is the same as it ever has been. Create a boot disk and copy
the required files to the disk. Then boot up and do the BIOS upgrade. Its
not that difficult so long as the motherboard BIOS has upgrade files. The
later BIOS's have nice flash programmes that make it a lot simpler of course
but flashing a BIOS is an experience everyone should have. I do it fairly
regularly but even after hundreds of BIOS upgrades I always have my heart in
my mouth for that 60 seconds or so. If you lose power during that one short
minute...zoom there goes one motherboard...well at least one BIOS.

Frank Brand


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