On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:27:25 +0100, Seum <(E-Mail Removed)> inscribed:

>Next I click on Download near the top of the page. Guess what? It goes
>back to the previous page.
>
>I tried this several times for Win2K and Win XP and it seems that I was
>going around in circles, ending up with nothing.

What they said, but you will have three download choices don't let it
install it's P2P program!

I have a very new mother board and using very old stuff from Asus.
they seem to provide for the chipset then move on to the next,
never updating anything but the bios.

So I 've downloaded everything and have it on on hand - but you'll find nothing
extra that isn't on the CD that came with the Motherboard. (bios excluded).
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Best idea: Don't use DNS servers located in the United States.

On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:20:34 +0300, (E-Mail Removed) inscribed:

>What they said,

My bad

Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:20:34 +0300

My time has been fixed -0800, a dual boot I rarely
use on a system that's known to change time on hard crashes.
They all do, but this one's annoyingly consistant.

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Best idea: Don't use DNS servers located in the United States.

Hello again Experts :-)

I bought the following motherboard: M4A88TD-V
and wanted to download the files for Win2K and WinXP.

http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...fUSB3&p=1&s=24

From the page listed above:

Support For
Motherboard M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3

Under the Download Tab:

OS: Win2K

23 Files found

Next I click on Download near the top of the page. Guess what? It goes
back to the previous page.

I tried this several times for Win2K and Win XP and it seems that I was
going around in circles, ending up with nothing.

TIA

Seum wrote:

> OS: Win2K
>
> 23 Files found
>
> Next I click on Download near the top of the page.

That is not the correct action.

The 23 files for Win2k are of 5 different classes/groups; each group has
a + mark beside its name.

You must expand that nested + condition for each/any group which you
want to access -- the site doesn't intend for you to download all 23
files as a 'package'. The Download tab near the top of the page is for a
different function.

When you expand the + by clicking on it for one of the items such as
Manual, you will find 9 choices for manual 'inside', only one of which I
would want, and the interface which results allows you to download from
any one of several choices of download site.

> Guess what? It goes back to the previous page.

That is the intended function of the upper Download link to which you refer.




--
Mike Easter

Seum wrote:
> Hello again Experts :-)
>
> I bought the following motherboard: M4A88TD-V
> and wanted to download the files for Win2K and WinXP.
>
> http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...fUSB3&p=1&s=24
>
>
> From the page listed above:
>
> Support For
> Motherboard M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
>
> Under the Download Tab:
>
> OS: Win2K
>
> 23 Files found
>
> Next I click on Download near the top of the page. Guess what? It goes
> back to the previous page.
>
> I tried this several times for Win2K and Win XP and it seems that I was
> going around in circles, ending up with nothing.
>
> TIA

When you select "Win2K", you should see a loading icon for a short interval
and then:

23 files found

+ Qualified Vendor List (1)
+ BIOS (9)
+ BIOS-Utilities (3)
+ Utilities (1)
+ Manual (9)

If you click one of the five blue "+" signs, that level of menu will
open up. Or, you can click on the blue word next to the "+".

If I click on BIOS, I see "Version 1702". There is a blue "Global" button
in that entry, and clicking that should start the download of version
1702 of the BIOS. And so on.

If you select an OS version and there are no returned files, then
obviously the OS is too old to be supported. Normally, that would
not happen, because the OS list in the menu is context sensitive,
and unsupported OSes should not even be listed. But there was a time,
when that kind of thing could have happened - OS listed, but no files
to be seen.

You do not click the Download again at the top of the page, because
that takes you back to start the drill down process for a new download.

Instead, you want to use the blue items nearer the bottom of the page,
to get what you need.

Paul

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> On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:20:34 +0300, (E-Mail Removed) inscribed:
>
>> What they said,
>
> My bad
>
> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:20:34 +0300
>
> My time has been fixed -0800, a dual boot I rarely
> use on a system that's known to change time on hard crashes.
> They all do, but this one's annoyingly consistant.
>
> --
> 8 Technical Methods That Make the PROTECT IP Act Useless
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/3m9zjyd
> Best idea: Don't use DNS servers located in the United States.

Thaaaannnkkk You Mike, Paul, P.W. and P.W. :-)

That ASUS web site is one of the most barren I have seen. They rarely
put a label on anything, especially the buttons. So, you have to keep
guessing all the time, unless you visit the web site regularly for some
kind of holiday=vacation. What effort would it take to insert a couple
of words here and there? Has anyone tried to fill out their application
forms? You have to nitpick down to the smallest thing, even if your
query is straightforward.

What would be a better web site and better motherboards?

Thanks again to you all :-)

Seum wrote:

>
> What would be a better web site and better motherboards?
>

You let their web site bother you ?

It's better in some ways, than it used to be :-)

Count your blessings. At least some of the downloads,
run at full rate, rather than being throttled. In response
to complaints the downloads were slow, Asus eventually started
using Akamai for some portion of their hosting. And then your
download runs at full rate (i.e. limited on your end).

Paul

Paul wrote:
> Seum wrote:
>
>>
>> What would be a better web site and better motherboards?
>>
>
> You let their web site bother you ?
>
> It's better in some ways, than it used to be :-)
>
> Count your blessings. At least some of the downloads,
> run at full rate, rather than being throttled. In response
> to complaints the downloads were slow, Asus eventually started
> using Akamai for some portion of their hosting. And then your
> download runs at full rate (i.e. limited on your end).
>
> Paul

Thanks again Paul.

Without you, ASUS would be nothing :-)

On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:04:40 +0100, Seum <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>What would be a better web site and better motherboards?

Some have live BIOS updates out of windows metaicons or something
clicky other than a DOS boot rescue DVD -- rest is just running a
program or doing a driver within the OS platfrom.

Works fine, although stick to the Chinese routes. Not much if any
on-the-fly tweaking for my severely limited and debilitated, older
FireFox - stops scripts, ulterior links and ties to java iceage cold
in their tracks.

When doing absolutely necessary things like online color cordinating
accessories at Sears or WallysMart, or putting up with Yahoo's crap, I
keep the latest Opera 11.5 for getting by confidence levels. Anyway,
both worked on the DOS BIOS FLASH section under your link for
utilities.

Ever tried the Farmer in the Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM? They can be
"interesting".

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:04:40 +0100, Seum <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> What would be a better web site and better motherboards?
>
> Some have live BIOS updates out of windows metaicons or something
> clicky other than a DOS boot rescue DVD -- rest is just running a
> program or doing a driver within the OS platfrom.
>
> Works fine, although stick to the Chinese routes. Not much if any
> on-the-fly tweaking for my severely limited and debilitated, older
> FireFox - stops scripts, ulterior links and ties to java iceage cold
> in their tracks.
>
> When doing absolutely necessary things like online color cordinating
> accessories at Sears or WallysMart, or putting up with Yahoo's crap, I
> keep the latest Opera 11.5 for getting by confidence levels. Anyway,
> both worked on the DOS BIOS FLASH section under your link for
> utilities.
>
> Ever tried the Farmer in the Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM? They can be
> "interesting".


My thanks to everyone for your help. Yesterday I downloaded all I could
for my dear ole Win2K.

Question: Would the Fujitsu-Siemens XP CDs have some kind of hidden
program that can sense the computer it is being installed in?

I was surprised that ASUS still has the Win2K progs. Now back to trying
to install Win2K on a "strange" box.

First I have to coax the ASUS BIOS etc., to accept my "new" offerings
:-) - new venture fro me. Don't forget to pull me up, if you find me
in a rabbit hole.