I have been searching for an answer to my problem for absolutley WEEKS and WEEKS now ! ! !
I have a little bit of sucess......... please see this forum thread:-
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10999
I have been pointed in the direction of using the Img Burn utility, which I have downloaded, Thanks.
However, for the life of me, I just cannot get it to do what I want it to do ! ! !
If you read the thread in the above forum you will see that I have a Toshiba Laptop. The person who I got it from had a BIOS password on it, which, after weeks of searching various other forums, I have managed to remove !
I can now access the BIOS, but I suspect that it is now corrupt somehow, because I cannot load any USB Devices, although I know the USB is working, because at boot up, the lights on my USB floppy light up, and then go out !
I have downloaded the Toshiba BIOS update, and tried it on another machine, and it works, PERFECTLY
It works if I try it through Windows XP, and it works if I extract the files to Floppy and run the USB Floppy Disk.
However, on the machine that I suspect has an out-of-date BIOS and it may even be corrupt, I cannot get the BIOS file to run.
The machine will only load up in Windows 98, and, although the BIOS file is supposed to run in 98, I get a
"Quote"
Failure Error DLL_detecChipset
"Unquote"
I have Googled this error, and get nothing except one site in German, that makes no sense !
After following the steps by a really good guy in the "www.boot-land-net" forums (Wongo-the-insane)
I have managed to get the files onto a CD-ROM CD Disk, except it is giving me yet another error !
OK........... so that is the scenario .......
The file I have downloaded fromToshiba is:-
bios-20070808110029.zip
This is the BIOS update for a Toshiba Equium A60 Laptop
Extract this file and I get:-
Osaka20V190.exe
Extract this file and I get:-
dbase.img
insydeflash.exe
iscflash.dll
iscflash.sys
iscflash.vxd
Platform.ini
UNICOWS.DLL
V190.ROM
If I follow the Toshiba instructions, and extract the .exe file to Floppy Disk, I get this;-
autoexec.bat
BIOS.ROM
COMMAND.COM
DOSFLASH.exe
DRVSPACE.BIN
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
Readme.txt
The above 8 files actually work on the USB Floppy Disk on my other Toshiba, and it updates the BIOS, without any problems.
So......... my logic says that all I have to do, is to get these 8 files onto a Bootable CD and my Corrupt Toshiba BIOS should update !
Or, maybe I am being simplistic?
Anyway, I have tried using ImgBurn and I just cannot get a Bootable CD ? ? ? ! ! !
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
