P4C800E - Deluxe Rocks!! Boot from Flash Drive?

[Karl Burrows]

Just built a new computer with this motherboard and it rocks! Unbelievably
cool temps (25 M/B, 21 CPU!) with P4 3.0 w/HT and 3 WD 26GB 10K SATA in
RAID1. Very happy with this board.

Want to get rid of my floppy drive. I posted a month or so ago and got a
few responses, but nothing definite. I installed an internal 9-in-1 card
reader in one floppy slot and want to use that as a boot device. How can I
get the BIOS and boot to recognize the flash as a floppy or bootable drive?

Thanks!

Here are my specs! Installed first time, all updates went great. Third
computer with Asus boards. Excellent!!

P4C800E Deluxe (1015 BIOS)
P4 3.0Ghz
1GB Corsair PC3700 Twin RAM
Asus ATI 9600XT 128MB RAM VideoCard
Zalman CNPS7000 CPU Cooler
Antec LANBoy Piano Black Case
WinXP Pro
WD SATA 36GB 10K RAID1
Seagate 160GB SATA
WD 120GB ATA
Lite-On 8x DVD+R
Lite-On DVD/CDRW

 

[Philip Callan]

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Karl Burrows wrote:

| Just built a new computer with this motherboard and it rocks!
Unbelievably
| cool temps (25 M/B, 21 CPU!) with P4 3.0 w/HT and 3 WD 26GB 10K SATA in
| RAID1. Very happy with this board.
|
| Want to get rid of my floppy drive. I posted a month or so ago and got a
| few responses, but nothing definite. I installed an internal 9-in-1 card
| reader in one floppy slot and want to use that as a boot device. How
can I
| get the BIOS and boot to recognize the flash as a floppy or bootable
drive?

I dont believe you can, the BIOS supports booting from a USB Flash
devices I know, but I dont think your reader 'emulates' a floppy when it
has a card in it, so the BIOS wouldnt regard it as a bootable device, I
dont belive.

But if when you boot the computer do so with a flash memory of some sort
in your 9-in-1, and *then* see if the BIOS lists it as a device, the
reader may not show up in the boot list if it has no media in it.


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[Craig Hawkins]

I like you build a floppyless P4C800E. I just plugged a 3.5" floppy in
temp. to update. Come on how many times do you actually update the bios.

But saying that, I am willing to bet that if you make a boot CD (I assume
your system has a burner) and added the bios files to it that u could use
this to update your system.

 

[Philip Callan]

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Craig Hawkins wrote:
| I like you build a floppyless P4C800E. I just plugged a 3.5" floppy in
| temp. to update. Come on how many times do you actually update the bios.

Normally, once, I try to bring the purchased version of a board up to a
later BIOS if it is *at least 3 revisions higher* or solves problems.

I had 1008, I moved to 1014. One and only flash, and guess what, here's
the kicker:

1. I used AsusUpdate, not AFUDOS or AFLASH.
2. I followed flash procedure to the letter.
3. I have had *0* of the problems people have had with BIOS settings
cause by improper use of AFUDOS.

|
| But saying that, I am willing to bet that if you make a boot CD (I assume
| your system has a burner) and added the bios files to it that u could use
| this to update your system.

Yes, I can do that as well, but havent needed to on this box (yet) and
if it came down to it, I'd have the choice of making a bootable CD or
DVD as I burn both

You can also use the BIOS EZ-FLash built in, which doesnt require a
bootable disc, just that a bios file with the name 'P4C800E.ROM' resides
~ on the disc.

Press Alt+F2 at post and it does it from there.

There a few ways BIOS companies and manufacturers are slowly weaning us
off the 3.5" teat.........

Which is good, alternatives abound (zip, ls120, usb flash drives....)
using such a legacy device in a new computer IMHO is akin to putting one
of those Model T/A 'hand-powered engine ignition devices' (CRANK)

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