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    Intel dp35dp bios update woes

    I have an intel dp35dp that is testing my patience.

    this thing has the slowest bios ever... and it is a 2007 version. there is a much upgraded 2009 version that i am trying to upgrade to.

    since i use linux on it, i had 2 choices. .iso and a recovery file.

    the .iso is finicky... one optical drie connected, it tries to flash it but it errors when it tries to access the bios chip. two drive and it errors much sooner with a second disc in the system (eject it please) error... i understand that.

    i tried to use the recovery file by putting it on a blank reformatted 1gb flash drive. i set ti to recoverymode as shown in the instructions... it doesn't do anything (no video, acces the drive once, i let it sit 10 min, reboot in normal mode, no bios change).

    i cannot find a bios chip on the board.

    any ideas? or do i need to find a new board?
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    Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

    Is there no DOS boot utility to flash it?
    "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

    -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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      #3
      Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

      there is... but due to me being out of cd-r's, i cannot make the hacked win98 cd to do it (i doubt i could burn it to a dvd-r and make it boot to dos mode).

      the board was a freebie... the repairlady said it was an emergency repair and the owners want ed a new board just to be safe. since she was a mac person, she mailed it to me to play with.

      it has some corrosion on it... i wonder if it is a hosed board.
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        #4
        Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

        you don't need a CDr make a floppy! Any Win OS boot floppy will work, copy the flash program and the bios file to the floppie and boot it the run the flash program.

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          #5
          Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

          NM i see you have a Intel Suck board with no Floppy controller.

          See my thread selling Imation USB bootable IDE floppy drives that read and write normal floppies as well as 120 mb floppies. You can also connect these directlly to the IDE controller of the MB and give those Shity no floppy MB's a floppy drive.

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            #6
            Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

            the bios file is too big for a floppy (2.3 mb). the board also lacks floppy support (until i soldered in the port... not sure if it works). btw, it did the no update routine before i added the floppy port. i even have an ls120 drive that i may put in it if i ever free up the ide port on the board... but the floppy is a no go.

            besides... what i ususally do is use isomaster (free for linux) to modify a win98 .iso to include the bios files, and run it with cd support, and use that to reflash. everytime i have tried it is has been faster and better than a floppy.

            supposedly you can make one using a flash drive, which i may try in a little bit.
            Last edited by ratdude747; 12-14-2010, 08:53 PM.
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              #7
              Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

              Just download the Intel BIOS update EXE intended for a diskette update, and that EXE will write a bootable diskette for you
              better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

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                #8
                Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                Your best bet is to sell that MB, it is not a MB you want to twick and tune with its crap, its a GP MB for GP desktops with very limited flexability.

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                  #9
                  Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                  That board doesn't have a floppy controller so he would need a IDE floppy drive ($20 from me) or a bootable flash drive etc. He is wasting his time trying to make a Yugo into a 300ZX.

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                    #10
                    Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                    it was supposed to be a higher end media board. it had premium audio and the like. even firewire.

                    not selling it... it was free and if iget it free, i don't sell it... if someone needs it it, then thats different... i might trade... but not sell.

                    i assume the fact that it is rejecting the updates is a sign it has bigger issues...
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                      #11
                      Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                      That board has nothing highend on it, it was Intel' s P35 express chipset rushout board to combat all the other makers of P35 chipsets because their high end P35 wasnt sellling and they cuts the nuts off of it, look at all the other p35 chipset boards and you will see.

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                        #12
                        Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                        it makes a nice web surfing and email machine thats about it, ya the firwire saves you $20 from buying a card to add that but you have to spend $20 to add a floppy. the audio is 8.1 but nobody doing audio would buy this board without a floppy controller unless they where mostly MAC machines and this was a bastard in some remote location.

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                          #13
                          Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                          ok... i want to get it working. i actually want my christmas $ to fix things, not get me another half-done project.

                          this system has been pure hell... this poor thing still has work to do even with the board fixed:

                          - possible hd replacement
                          - more ram (1gb in x64 mode doesn't cut it)
                          -better card reader
                          - newer, faster SATA opticals
                          - eventual cpu upgrade (it has a 1.8ghz PDC)
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                            #14
                            Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                            Ratdude:

                            Take any old hard drive and sys a: c: to it from a Windows 95/98 bootdisk. Next copy the bios to it and boot that hard drive from the Intel motherboard. Voila.
                            "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

                            -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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                              #15
                              Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                              actually, i am in the process of making a flash drive do that...
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                                #16
                                Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                                What Linux are you running? I think you said ubuntu at some point? GRUB2 can be modified to boot from a CD or floppy image rather easily...no blanks or floppy drive needed.

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                                  #17
                                  Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                                  well, due to a game of hard drive swap, it has a questionable drive with mac os 10.5 ppc on it.

                                  the drive may be faulty... i stole the drive out of this computer in question for my imac g5... swapping the drives fiexed the mac, which means the dripe i pulled from it may be bad. since that is my only spare SATA, i had to put that in.

                                  i have installed nothing to it... it might get a dose of fedora x64... see my thread i am about to post on my switch from ubuntu.
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                                    #18
                                    Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                                    Originally posted by ratdude747 View Post
                                    actually, i am in the process of making a flash drive do that...
                                    Don't ever reformat a flash drive. I know you don't have to reformat to write the MBR, but this is a common error. If you do reformat it, watch your write speed diminish.
                                    "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

                                    -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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                                      #19
                                      Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                                      well... i know that my ee pc required a fat16 fs to update bios... no fat32.

                                      i never said i was reformatting. i was going to try to make a dos usb stick, but i gave up since everything i found led to a dead end.
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                                        #20
                                        Re: Intel dp35dp bios update woes

                                        solved it!

                                        the trick is to have a RAM stick in slot 0. i noticed that i forgot to tell it to update bios, so it went to intem magement server, which bitched about solt 0 being empty. i moved the stick to that slot, tried the cd based off the .iso form intel, and it went wothout any hiccups.

                                        i feel dumb...
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