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Re: Gigabyte TA1
« Reply #14 from previous page: September 03, 2015, 11:48:46 PM »
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Found the updated BIOS.  Copied it to a thumb drive.  Tried to boot with a floppy drive with MS-DOS 5.0, but it doesn't recognize the USB drive!  

Attempted to format a floppy using a USB drive on a Windows 10 computer and it doesn't recognize the USB floppy drive!  DANGED progress...NOT!!!

Anyway, now I'm booting from a DOS 5 diskette on the TA1, formatting the C drive and will boot from the PUPPY Linux CD then copy the BIOS files to the hard drive and reboot with the floppy to access the BIOS files in DOS and HOPEFULLY update the BIOS.

Ya know, I must really be a sado-masochist to go to this much trouble just for play!!!
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Re: Gigabyte TA1
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2015, 12:20:06 AM »
Well after reflashing the BIOS I booted from the Puppy CD and attempted to install it to the hard drive.

As usual, everything looked like it was working, but when I popped the CD out and rebooted with just the hard drive, still get the dreaded "No Operating System Installed."

I do believe it is time to stop trying to heal terminally broke equipment and move on to something a bit more fun, because this is DEFINITELY NOT FUN ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!
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