![]() ![]() Where do I begin? The "depends on the phase of the moon, brand of media, and which computer it was formatted on" unreliability? the unbearable slowness? the miniscule storage size? Why must every new motherboard have a 1.44mb floppy diskette connector, cable, and corresponding BIOS/boot settings? Is there anything more useless? It's not like floppies were ever very good. ![]() And it's a pain every single time, mainly because the PC industry can't seem to rid itself of the crappy legacy 1.44mb floppy diskette drive. Sometimes the motherboards are fairly up to date out of the box, but this one was four BIOS revisions behind- maybe because it's a relatively new model and thus not quite "baked" yet.įlashing the BIOS is one of those "must be done from a bootable DOS disk" operations. I also flash the BIOS to the latest revision from the manufacturer's support page. This means doing a bench (open air) install, clean OS build and Prime95 torture test burn in. I'm currently building up my new Pentium M system for HTPC duties. ![]()
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