Flashing the motherboard’s bios
At this point, I have hit a brief roadblock. I want to flash the bios of my motherboard so that it supports my RAM in dual channel mode at it’s full speed - currently the motherboard recognizes it as DDR333, when in reality it’s DDR400. I successfully downloaded the bios flash utility from Soltek but it requires a boot floppy.
After I found a blank floppy, I realized that the laptop has no floppy drive, which kind of complicates things. Fortunately, I can boot from CD, so I found Bart’s boot CD methods, and am in the process of burning a bootable CD containing my bios update utility and updated bios.
Wish me luck!