Crap dudes, I need to figure out how to do this, or else pay someone $70 plus parts to come do it for me. I hate paying people to do stuff for me, especially when the web is so helpful at telling me how to do it myself.
Dell should know they're not fooling me by switching the girl intern. I'm not having it. Maybe she didn't want to be known as the Dell intern girl her whole career, so she decided to get out before she got in too deep. It looks like they're going deep with this campaign.
Well, I already screwed up my new computer. The various components arrived yesterday, so after Mara was in bed, I started putting it together. I got all the electrical wirings from case to motherboard set up to where I could boot up. I then added the floppy drive successfully. I figured I should get the latest BIOS and flash it in, right? So I go to Asus's website, look up my motherboard, download the latest BIOS image, copy it onto a bootable floppy, boot up the new computer to DOS, start the flash program, make a backup (because I'm being so careful!), apply the new BIOS, click past a warning message (this BIOS is not from ASUS, do you want to continue?) because really, I got it from the Asus website, so what's going to happen?
Nothing, that's what. Now the sucker won't even post. Worst case scenario is that I have to send the whole motherboard into somewhere. If I'm lucky, I can get the BIOS chip reprogrammed somehow, but not with tools I have handy. In other words, I'm totally screwed, and it's all my fault!
The best part: after I screwed the pooch, I decided to read the section of the manual about updating the BIOS. "Do not", it said, "update the BIOS unless you are having problems with your motherboard because the process is inherently risky."
