On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:50:18 -0400, "Bradley Betz"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I went to the TYAN website and got what I think are the correct files to
>flash my bios (2390w108.bin, and flashv73.exe).
>The problem now is that I'm having trouble with a bootable disk.
>I thought I made one correctly, but when I try to boot with the disk in, it
>says there's an "I/O error".
>How do I make a bootable disk?
>What I was doing was formatting the disk in the floppy drive, choosing the
>"Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option.
>What Gives? Does it have something to do with running XP?
>Here's my info:
>
> BIOS Date: 08/03/00
> BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
> BIOS ID: 08/03/2000-8363-686A-S2390C
> OEM Sign-On: TYAN TRINITY KT V1.03a
> Chipset: VIA 82C305 rev 2
> Superio: VIA 686 rev 34 found at port 7h
> OS: WinXP
> CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) 800 Mhz MAX: 500 Mhz
> BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
> BIOS ROM Size: 256K
> Memory Installed: 448 MB
> Memory Maximum: 512 MB
> Memory Slot 01: 256 MB
> Memory Slot 02: 128 MB
> Memory Slot 03: 64 MB
> Memory Slot 04: 0 MB
>
>
>Also, is this a good board?
>
>
Possibly you don't have a bootable HDD attached and haven't set the bios
to boot from floppy?
As for the "good board" question, Tyan makes decent enough boards though
that particular board uses the Via chipset with 686 southbridge, which has
the potential for IDE corruption or issues with some sound cards,
particularly Creative Labs Soundblaster Live, and/or poor performance with
any PCI-intensive cards, activities, like running a RAID controller or
Gigabit NIC, etc. Best solution is to beware of Soundblaster issue, and
be sure to use fairly recent Via 4in1 driver. If you HDD storage (or
optical drive burning) includes use a large, dozens of MB filesizes you
might want to run CRC checks on the files to be sure they're not being
corrupted. Updating the BIOS is also a good idea, but since that's
exactly the goal it needs no further mention.
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