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If anyone has any advice to give it would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure if the drive is having a problem or if the sounds I am hearing are just standard for the drive just sounds like a little bit of a high pitched whine and it occasionally sounds like it attempts to access a section and fails All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic.

Replies 2. Isn't there a separate disk test option on the F12 one-time boot menu? I thought the had that in addition to the "run diagnostics" option. Anyway, to answer your question, you'll need to make your own bootable CD, assuming you have a CD burner and Nero or Roxio.

This version does not force you to make a floppy disk, it's the raw boot image file. Extract the win98sec. If you downloaded the CDD or CZ version of the Dell Diagnostics, extract the contents into a temp directory somewhere--I'll call it "delldiag" for illustration. You'll end up with around 40 or 50 files in a single directory. Now start Nero or Roxio, begin a new project, and select the bootable CD type.

For a boot image, browse to the win98sec. Add all the files from delldiag into the project window. Thanks for the answer Dg. The useful part is the grub instructions to use memdisk from syslinux. Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: This would be real handy if If I didn't get this error Have you got vfat built somehow? Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: tried that too Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: and then some Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: as for vfat.

I have other vfat partitions mounted, so that can't be it I also don't have to specify -t vfat on command line, it auto-figures-it-out Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: issue.

Maybe you don't have Loopback device support enabled in the kernel. If you're using a 2. Are you able to mount an iso image file with Code:. Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: I figured as much but Posted: Tue Jul 27, pm Post subject: another solution. Make a small 8 mb partion on you harddrive and install freedos on it for BIOS updates. Then all you need to do is mount the drive when needed copy the bios files to it.

Reboot and pick DOS from your boot menu and flash to your hearts content. Posted: Wed Jul 28, am Post subject:. Oh, by the way, the program you use should be the "host" board's flash utility With "host" I mean the board that do the actual flashing If it denies to flash the other boards.

I guess you could find some site with more details somewhere but I haven't checked it out I think that having two BIOS chips is a gigabyte only trick No other motherboard manufacturer has that BIOSes, not sure if it uses two chips It was followed up by Windows ME.

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Internet Explorer 4. DirectX 6. Windows Media Player 6. Windows 98 Second Edition can be updated with the Microsoft. NET framework version 1. The last version of Internet Explorer that can be installed on 98 SE is 6. Other available upgradeable components include DirectX 9. All others require an appropriate Windows 98 Boot Floppy.