Question:
BIOS update
Having read Morten's comment about the BIOS update to 1.11 for my 6214W I have been to the Zepto site and downloaded it.
Unfortunately I have been unable to find instructions on how to actually go about the upgrade, and have found numerous scare stories around the net about the terrors of doing so.
I am now in two minds as to whether to go ahead or not.
Even updating the graphics drivers seems far more complicated than on my desktop. I frequently do that but the laptop ones seem a bit more involved and so I haven't dared yet :(
RB
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Burn the bios image .iso to a cdrw or dvdrw.
Reset the bios to default settings.
Boot off the cd/dvd and everything will go automatically from there.
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Thanks Shnoob, sounds very easy.
I hope it is :)
RB
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As I dont have a zepto i got a bit worried when it started doing everything automatically lol.
Shouldnt have any problems tho. :)
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i created a dos usb key then extracted the iso contents to it, then booted to dos and ran the batch file
jobs a goodin
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That sounds much more complicated Juan, was there a reason that you did that?
By the way, the boot order is a BIOS setting isn't it? How do you get the PC to boot from the disc if the BIOS is set to defaults and the default is to boot from HDD first?
Thanks
RB
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Change the boot order then or look for the setting which enables the boot menu, F8 or F12. Wont effect anything during flashing.
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OK Bit the bullet and it's done, thanks to Shnoob and Juan.
Everything went smoothly until the very end when the "Everythings gone fine" message came up and disappeared before I could read all of it. The PC then shut down. I fired it up again and then thought '****, it's going to try to flash again', and whipped the CD out before it could. The boot up seemed to take an age, and then demanded to reboot again.
Now I get a message that I didn't get before, it comes up before the Zepto boot screen and tells me that it is an engineers BIOS not for product use or something.
Is this correct?
Everything is now in order, I just hope it stays that way, now to try and work out how to update the graphics drivers!
BTW my keyboard has been much more responsive than before whilst typing this, the BIOS can't have effected it, could it? Wierd :), perhaps it's just because it is on a desk and not on my lap as usual.
RB
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Now I get a message that I didn't get before, it comes up before the Zepto boot screen and tells me that it is an engineers BIOS not for product use or something.
Is this correct?
Yes - it's just a string they forgot to delete. I've seen this in many BIOSs.
BTW my keyboard has been much more responsive than before whilst typing this, the BIOS can't have effected it, could it?
Yes it could. There are some settings in the BIOS concerning the keyboard - maybe they have set it to proper default values with 1.11.
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not complicated at all for about 1 month I have had no dvd drive.
I have a spare little usb stick so I made it a win98 boot to dos disk, basically there is a utility out there that copies floppy boot disk files to anything.
so I can have lots of 3rd party dos utilitys on the usb stick, like harddrive recovery etc