http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2005%2F07%2F31%2Fnew-computer-05%2F%23comment-&seed_title=New+Computer+%26%2339%3B05 To be equivocal is to truly live. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:06:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://equivocality.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fequivocality.com%2F2005%2F07%2F31%2Fnew-computer-05%2F%23comment-771&seed_title=New+Computer+%26%2339%3B05#comment-771 Equivocality » Blog Archive » This Little Chip Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:57:45 +0000 http://equivocality.com/2005/07/01/new-computer-05/#comment-771 [...] Recent random rebootings had given me reason to start running the latest BIOS version. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a floppy drive (I opted not to buy one with my new computer because I haven’t used a floppy in years), which meant that I was stuck with the Windows flash software. The software happened to crash at a very early part of the flashing process, which meant that I didn’t even have basic bootup code to get a drive running. At next boot - nothing. No BIOS POST beep, no screen signal, no response from the keyboard. I quickly purchased a floppy drive at the nearest dealer, scrambled to find a disk, put a boot sector on it, but to no avail. There wasn’t even enough code burned onto the chip to get power to the floppy drive. [...] [...] Recent random rebootings had given me reason to start running the latest BIOS version. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a floppy drive (I opted not to buy one with my new computer because I haven’t used a floppy in years), which meant that I was stuck with the Windows flash software. The software happened to crash at a very early part of the flashing process, which meant that I didn’t even have basic bootup code to get a drive running. At next boot - nothing. No BIOS POST beep, no screen signal, no response from the keyboard. I quickly purchased a floppy drive at the nearest dealer, scrambled to find a disk, put a boot sector on it, but to no avail. There wasn’t even enough code burned onto the chip to get power to the floppy drive. [...]

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