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Postby Scorpiоn » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:08 pm

Awhile back I was installing LAN card drivers, but I got the CDs fibbed up.
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Re: Motherboard BIOS

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:36 pm

The chances of screwing your Bios whilst installing drivers in Windows is practically nil!

Your problem lies within Windows NOT your BIOS.  ;)
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Re: Motherboard BIOS

Postby Hawkeye313 » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:16 pm

I agree.  I don't think that it would mess w/ your BIOS.  I'd try a reformat before I'd mess w/ the BIOS.  One wrong move and you'll really be in a fix.  If you decide to flash, make sure to read the instructions in your mobo manual BEFORE attempting.
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Postby Scorpiоn » Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:11 am

Is it possible for a CD to install a BIOS during start up?  (By itself?)  I think that's what it did.  I dunno.

I'm just at ends at why this snnoying start-up feature I didn't want is installed and slowing my boot-up.  Just as bad a spyware. :P
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Postby 4_Series_Scania » Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:20 pm

Is it possible for a CD to install a BIOS during start up?  (By itself?)  I think that's what it did.  I dunno.

I'm just at ends at why this snnoying start-up feature I didn't want is installed and slowing my boot-up.  Just as bad a spyware. :P



Not a Windows setup disk, well, none I've ever come across!

You can however, create a bootable CD that could contain a Bios flashing program,  or, as another example, my Asus mobo will auto re-flash the Bios if an overclock fails, this requires me re-booting with my mobo CD in the drive, the machine then boots from the CD first......

Messing about with the Bios on a suspect install of Windows will cause you  no end of grief, trust me, I've been there and done it!  ::)
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Postby Scorpiоn » Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:22 pm

Bah!  When in doubt reformat!  That's my motto. ;D
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Re: Motherboard BIOS

Postby FridayChild » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:38 am

You have *not* "installed a BIOS"!
Btw there is only one system BIOS, and it only can be upgraded with the appropriate utility and the appropriate BIOS image, not by installing peripheral drivers.
You just seem to have installed, along with the LAN card drivers, some kind of LAN card startup utility/diagnostics.
In that case, if you really are annoyed by it, you could try removing the LAN card from system management (to be sure you have removed it completely,  booting in safe mode wouldn't hurt), rebooting and then reinstalling it, paying attention to any dialog box asking you if you want to install additional utilities or such.
I understand that your system is still working properly, LAN card included, so I really don't see the point of reinstalling. Let alone flashing that poor BIOS...  ;)
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Re: Motherboard BIOS

Postby Gixer » Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:44 pm

Its probably somthing the software does to be honest.  I wouldn't worry about it.  There may be an option somewhere to turn off the screen but you would have to try and find that yourself.
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