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Geek Culture / Can't upgrade my BIOS

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glyvin101
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 09:19
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Hey guys , just got a new pc and I have a MSI P6N SLI platinum board and I need to update my bios to the latest version, there is suppose to be a super simply way of doing this using their live support but it does not support vista /gasp.

Anywho I DLed their Latest BIOS and there were no instructions on how to do it for VISTA /gasp

So my options are to install XP and duel boot , which I am not familar with or to Install a floppy drive and try to work with that somehow.

Also one last question. If I would want to duel boot xp, how would I go about that as in how would I partion the drive etcc, I have never duel booted before.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Will
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Osiris
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 09:25
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Dual Booting (With Vista installed first)

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indi
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 09:56 Edited at: 23rd Aug 2007 09:57
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Instead of dual booting, think about a quick hot swap bay. they are dirt cheap for the price of unscrewing your case 10 times.

basically you lock n load the drive you want then boot up.
I have it setup on my linux box so I can have many flavours on different hard drives.
I use IDE on that machine as its an older PIII

there are sata ones like the image posted.


If you have an older hard drive, just format it with XP and install the BIOS from XP using a floppy.
Then swap the drives and your back to Skin and Blister.
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glyvin101
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indi that confused the well that confused me, Are you saying use multiple hardrives?
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indi
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 10:40
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A hot swap bay lock n loads hard drives.
feed hard drives with OSes into one computer, restart between lock n loading.

Win 98se HD
Win XP HD
Win 2k HD
Win Vista HD
Linux (varied flavours)HD
OSX HD
Amiga HD
BEOS HD

yes im saying multiple hard drives as an alternative to dual booting which usually corrupts two OSES over time with grub or lilo on a L*X WIN setup.

Sorry am I speaking dutch mate?
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spooky
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If you don't want to spend money, then google about a bit and you can find ways of making a boot CD that has just enough files on it to boot to a DOS session so you can run the flash exe.

Another way that looks interesting is to make a bootable USB storage drive. As luck would have it the following person also has a MSI P6N SLI Platinum and makes a USB bootable drive to flash his bios. Just follow his instructions with your newer bios files.

http://www.gamebeat.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1057

Boo!
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