So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/06 08:58I just tried to flash a BIOS with nvFlash. The first couple of times I loaded it, to get info about my card, it worked fine. Then I tried to load it again to actually flash and it would not load. I boot from floppy and then type just nvFlash as a test. The floppy drive makes some noise, then stops, but the light is still on. Nothing happens. All that's on screen nothing more than just the command. I tried taking the card out and using the onboard graphics but I still get the same problem. Tried two different floppy drives and two different disks!
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/06 11:20Try a different floppy disk. They aren't the most reliable media and maybe it's corrupted. So just try some more and see what it gives and redownload nvFlash as maybe your file is corrupted.
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/06 12:06Yeah, that is why I don't really use a floppy any more, it is just not that reliable as it was before. I just bought an USB memory stick that I formatted as a bootable DOS media and on that I can put all that is needed and I can reuse whenever needed, and you don't run out of space.
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/06 17:11Yeah, if your still using floppy, as I do for some older setups, better than have as I do 7 or 8 spare floppy drives. They can crap out any time, about 100 or more floppy disks for old save BIOS files and just in case. Then for flashing, a few, as many as you like, PCI video cards, for when the floppy fail and they will fail, you could very well find your self in a blind flash situation as I have. But once here for a while, no worries, you will be as versed with all kinds of flashing, you be bricking cards just to recover them, erm for fun...
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/07 04:11Well I thought it was the disk or the drive too, but after trying different ones with the same result. I fixed the problem anyway, I remember that the first time I ran it, I had run it from the directory where I stored the executable. It seems it needed to go in a subfolder, and wouldn't work properly straight from the root directory. Weird, but true. I was using DrDOS driver free disk for flashing.
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/07 10:16Well that makes sense, DOS will only look in the directory you specify for the executable. At least it was an easy fix, if you can call it a fix.
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/07 15:42DarkFox wrote: Well that makes sense, DOS will only look in the directory you specify for the executable. At least it was an easy fix, if you can call it a fix. Sorry I don't call that a fix, and I think nobody will. That is just normal it is like you would be trying to double click on an executable from Windows which is not in the directory where you double click, meaning you would be clicking in tin air. So no that is not a fix, if you stored the nvFlash program in a directory you can only launch it from that directory. If you would have put all just in the root it would have worked from there... That is just logic nothing special about it.
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/08 00:34I was being sarcastic, sorry
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/11 02:59No but that's the thing, I wasn't trying to launch it from a different folder. I put it in the root and launched it from there, and it didn't work. Then, when I put it in a directory and launched it from there it did work. Why not try it yourself and see if the same thing happens for you?
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Re:So nvFlash worked fine the first few times, now it won't load? - 2008/09/11 18:54Agent24 wrote: No but that's the thing, I wasn't trying to launch it from a different folder. I put it in the root and launched it from there, and it didn't work. Then, when I put it in a directory and launched it from there it did work. Why not try it yourself and see if the same thing happens for you? Sorry but I have been flashing more cards than I can recall and either from floppy or USB flash drive sometimes in root and sometimes in a directory, but it always worked so don't tell me to try, I can it will just work if you have all the needed files well copied on the media. So you can be sure you did something different, but it worked and that is what the goal was.
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