Problems flashing bios

[altecvix]

Hello everyone I am trying to flash the bios of an old R32 with zenders work around so I can install an internal wifi card, but I am running into a couple of problems that are probably simple but they are stumping me.

1. On zenders download option it says that one of them is in bootable cd format. But I can't get that one to work for the life of me. When I download it and look at it All I see is a text file called "dummy". But, i figured the files are just hidden and went ahead and burned the ISO image using nero. But my R32 doesn't recognize anything when it boots with the cd-rom as the priority.

2. So I decided to try the lenova website instruction and just swap out the fl1 file with zenders. But the Lenova website for the R32 has instructions for a diskette(floppy) and my R32 only has a cd-rom. I tried making a bootable floppy then dragging those files and burning them to a blank cd and that didn't work.

so is there a way to make a cd bootable desk from the 1mud23ud.exe file and just swap the FL1 files with zenders?

Or is my problem that I have ubuntu 9.10 and I need windows inorder for those disks to boot?

Or does somebody who is smarter than me have a better way to work around these issues?

Thank you for your time

[Harryc]

A CD image would have the file extension of .iso. If it's a text file it is not a bootable CD image file.

[altecvix]

It is an ISO and when I burn the iso to a cd and look at it expecting to see files there is only one that says dummy that is a text file.

[Harryc]

There would be no reason to have hidden files, besides that you could view them if you enabled that in folder options. I'd contact Zender and ask about the 'dummy' text file.

[RealBlackStuff]

Did you get the R 3 2 i s o . z i p file?

[altecvix]

Yes, I unzipped it then burned the ISO.

[RealBlackStuff]

You created a self-booting CD (with normally invisible files), just put it in your R32 CD drive and have the system boot from it.
Then update your BIOS.
Get Isobuster to look at your CD, it will show the BIOS file...

[altecvix]

Which points us back to my original post. When rebooting with the CD-rom as the priority it does not recognize the cd and boots into ununtu as it normally would. So does Zenders bootable cd require some form of windows such as a dos kernel or is there something I am missing?

[Zender]

It should work, given that the burning software wasn't being clever and didn't alter it somehow. You should only see the dummy file, the actual BIOS update is a floppy disk image (the one from Lenovo with .FL1 replaced) located in CD "boot block" - that's one of possible ways to boot from a CD. It doesn't rely on anything in installed operating system.

[altecvix]

SOLVED... with a new issue!

Well I finally figured out my problem... Turns out I had to enable bios flashing and disable floppy drives (even though I do not have one on my r32) in the bios before it would boot from zenders cd.

So now I flashed the bios with zenders workmenship without any issues and installed the mini pci-wireless card but now I am getting a "resource conflict pci network controller in slot 01" error.

Does anyone know why I am getting this and how to work around it?

[RealBlackStuff]

Maybe you also need to update the ECP to match the BIOS?
At bootup hit F1 to go into BIOS, hit F9 for setting all defaults. Hit F10 to save then try again...