The problem is with a old fujitsu seimens scaleop P system Motherboard is Asus P5SD1-FM2/S Think it's maybe specific to fujitsu? The battery was removed for a short period and now when turning on i get the following.. Ez flash . looking for cd rom looking for floppy. Downloaded the latest bios from fujitsu site and it comes in the form of a 1.46mb iso Burned the image to a cd and poped it in but now i get. "P5SD1FMF.ROM not found on cd" and it will just go back to repeating searching for floppy and then searching for cd rom. I'm clueless now, i don't have a floppy drive either, or anything other than a iso that apears to be no good. Any ideas?
1.46Mb will be a floppy disk image. If you burn that image to a CD there will not be enough data on the disc for it to be read successfully by the BIOS flash utility. If you're familiar with manipulating ISO images I suggest you add some more files to the image before you burn it. Get it up to a few hundred Mb to be sure it can be read successfully (also burn it at slowest speed). If that doesn't work you're probably gonna have to splash out a few quid on a floppy drive or see if you can salvage one from an old machine/borrow one off a mate.
Tried the cd iso method to 300mb useing a avi file. Didn't work. My friend has a spare floppy drive kicking about though so will borrow that. Now my question is... how do i go about putting the 1.46mb .iso file onto the floppy? Floppy is 1.44mb max is it not? I have never been in this boat before so it's noob time
Why not use a USB memory stick? It's easy and quick to drop the files on a mem stick. Just extract the ISO file, and take the new BIOS update out of the folder it creates, and drop it onto your USB stick.
Far too old a motherboard to be reading bios flash from a usb stick, i tried though This is all i get when the power button is pressed on.
Sounds like it's buggered to me... If it isn't detecting drives that are plugged in you've had it tbh.
It detects the drives. I just don't have a floppy drive plugged in. When a cd rom with the iso image burrned to it is put in the cd drive it gives me this so it detects the drives fine it just needs a floppy to flash bios. Possitive i just need to create a bootable floppy from the 1.46mb .iso image when i get the floppy drive of a friend to plug in. I just need to know what to do with the floppy and the .iso and why is the .iso 1.46mb if a floppy only takes 1.44mb Please help fellow bit techites i have managed to extract a file bootable floppy .img from the iso...only seen this file in 7zip, the rest were showing the iso as a blank cd with nothing on it.
get the rom you need.. should get the utility too stick it on a self booting usb stick http://www.student.livjm.ac.uk/cmpsgoos/usb_bootdrive_guide.htm flash it manually like that
Like i said, the board wont boot from USB I just need to know now what to do with the bootable floppy .img file
hey slizza.. you extract the files from the img yet? they probably didn't implement it right- use something like magic iso to extract the files out and put the rom and util on a bootable cd.. you can use the bootfiles from the usb link listed above to make your boot cd ah just looked up your board.. looks like it has a bios recovery jumper too http://dermauer.dk/Man_P5SD1-FM2_uk.pdf look at page 1-24
Yeh, nothing happening from CD. Just waiting to get a floppy. I emailed fujitsu telling them everything i have done to try get there bios img to work. They replied saying "we suggest you download the bios img from our site!" These people are morons.
They're not necessarily morons, but they have many many people under orders simply to use a pre-written response.
i'v had this problem on a firends pc, all i did was burn the file to disk and made should the file name was right (had to rename it) ,probley a long way of saying it but do you have the latest bifo file and the right name for it on the cd ?
The bios iso files on there site, apear to be blank cd's. Only when looking with 7 zip could i see a folder named boot. in this folder was a floppy img file. See here. Inside this file is this.. I assume what i must do is rename the .rom file in the second picture and press the write button in winimage? Waiting on a floppy drive, should get tomorrow or day after. Tried putting those files i extracted from the .img on the cd iso with renamed .rom but it never worked.
yes, but if you can get the rom file out of the img and remame it to p5sd1fmf.rom then burn to a cd as a file.
Just abandoned there iso altogether and wrote the files as a normal data cd, and it reported a successful flash so i slapped the jumpers back over and all looked good....for a while. I now can get the normal fujitsu startup screen etc, press tab and it runs through the usual post stuff. But it will then say "CMOS checksum BAD" And give me this Is it time to take a hammer to this thing?
Yeh thanks, cmos clear didn't fix the cmos error and now the pc starts up when switching the psu on... No idea why, the jumpers are back correct from what i can see. Anyway, it seems to be installing xp justnow. *CROSSES FINGERS*
on that page I refered too before.. looked in that img file.. looks like they did make a mistake in the autoexec.bat Code: @ECHO OFF cls bios echo echo Asus P5SD1-FM2 ACPI BIOS Revision 0304 echo (weiter mit beliebiger taste !) pause >nul AFUDOS /i0304.rom /pbc gc echo Bitte Neustarten und Setup Defaults laden! Echo Please Reboot and Load Setup Defaults! the rom is misnamed i0304.rom.. but the jumper trick should work fine too.. you can rename the rom to i0304.rom and burn it to a cd, try that if it's still acting funny
