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Re: [LUG] Interesting situation...

 

James Fidell wrote:
> Neil Stone wrote:
> 
>> It does have a floppy drive... but I'm having problems locating a floppy
>> disk, and a floppy image...
> 
> Hah!  I have, sitting in my office, a twin 3GHz Xeon box with 3 x 70GB
> 10k rpm SCSI drives, redundant PSUs and 4GB RAM.  Would make a lovely
> box for running Xen VMs on, thinks I.
> 
> Unfortunately what it doesn't have is a BIOS.  According to the beep
> codes it's gone walkabout and I need to install a BIOS recovery
> floppy.  Finding a floppy, drive, cable and a windows machine (with a
> floppy drive) to run the DOS binaries to create the recovery disk has
> proved tricky.  Shame the CR2032 battery on the motherboard is reading
> 0.00V, too, especially since I don't have a spare lying about.
> 
> James
> 

I have a USB floppy drive, and spare CR2032 batteries... I'll swap you
for the motherboard and CPUs... :-P

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