Well, I recently bought some new parts for my computer. I got a SATA II card, SATA DVD Burner with Lighscribe, SATA II 500 GB Western Digital HardDrive, and a Power supply from Rosewill. The stuff was working, but not how it should. With my BIOS you are supposed to be able to boot from Add-In Cards — when I got it all setup though, you couldn’t.

I had to fix this. Stuff should work, even if you don’t need it to work exactly how it should, it should still work. So I researched and decided that I needed to update the BIOS. I had done this before, not on my computer, but on others. So I went to Foxconn’s site and looked up my motherboard and found that there were two different BIOS’ programs. So I went with the first one, the first one was not the correct choice.

What’s worse was it now wouldn’t let me change my mind and load the other one. The new BIOS actually worked pretty good, it showed the new HardDrive that I had bought and you could even boot from it, except there was nothing on that HardDrive. Windows was on my RAIDed WD Raptors. This BIOS didn’t support RAID. So I went to their site and checked out the support page and emailed them.

Within 12 hours I got a response, they told me that I had loaded the wrong BIOS and to load the other one. Well thanks, except I tried that already, so I emailed them back and told them that I had already tried it. Within another 12 hours they sent me another email that said “Pass paramater /f when you load the new BIOS”

It worked! I knew there was a way to force it to load the new BIOS. I had read about it online, it never said how to do it though.