http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtm.../cnfloppy30.xml

how can we update bios? newbie-ish question sorry

erk, bios?the story was about the end of the floppy disk era i presume

any new pc casing that never come with floppy drive slot?? hehhe

What he means is with the end of the floppy disk era, how are we to update hardware bios's firmware (most previous generation of hardware bios firmware are commonly updated with a flash utility and booted up from the floppy disk).

New generation of hardware or more precise motherboards can be boot-up in DOS mode by USB drive or CD-Rom. So, the end of the story for floppy disk......

no more disket.yeah,of course.only 1.44mb.
i still remember,i cant put my word file into one disket

Well it will not be so soon....th ereason being that some of the program does need diskette to boot up and run....I still need to rely on my good old floppy to run a network tools and then ghost the PC

thumb drives 1gb @ RM33... my floppy disks are history lol

hand up assignment? why pass a rm1 diskette to ur lecturer? which might spoil n stuff and then lecturer cant open and so on? burn to a cd... 39cents

True, but if pc manufacturers insist to phase-out the floppy disk I'll guest to software vendors have to toe in the line and release new programs with alternate solutions to boot. Other than this with only storage capacity of 1.44 MB, I guest it just out-live it's usefulness.

Hey, what about laptops. Itsn't it without floppy disk long, long time ago and doing just fine.

This post has been edited by Flex: Feb 4 2007, 04:55 AM

humm... lot of our school's computer lab still using Disket as a main method to transfer question when in exam...

*i'm still using it, lol

nowaday u can update bios in windows environment lerr

Yea thats true..If you have no idea on how to update your bios in windows environment maybe this can give u a better view

Example:Abit Bios Update

kohkohkohh.. this is the asus bios utilities which runnin' at windows environment..

we can do it with a thumbdrive too

Asus also gives a way to update a bios with CD-rom too...
You just need to burn a cd with the motherboard bios in it.

Restart the pc, and when it's in the test section where it seeks for drives, just press Alt+F2, then it will seek for a cd-rom that have the correct bios for the motherboard.

Then, Walla!!!

And most of the OS now come with a bootable cd-rom.. No need to run setup from startup disk using disket like in those windows 95 and 98

It has been a year that I didnt see or find any diskette, even my pc and laptop also dont have floppy disc..

bye bye mr.floppy....
my current rig also dun have floppy disc already.....
floppy discs suffers from data corruption easily.....
i would miss seing the red light on the drive and the "highly noticed" reading sound

Finally Floppy Production came to a halt...

long2 time ago i throw away my floppy disk...still remember when i learn how 2 use pc during my primary school.have to use floppy disk to boot up windows and spme softwares....

Well.. that was during the time where most kids thinks that it's pronounce as biscuits rather than diskettes...

The old'skool blue floppy...