[Novalug] Gateway 2500 BIOS Problems

Jon Taimanglo jontaimanglo@gmail.com
Wed Jul 18 09:46:28 EDT 2007


when i was able to get into bios (before flashing to the latest), i think
the only option was either to enable or disable it.  the first time through
it was enabled with the autodetect, but only reported 8.5GB.  i was hoping
the upgraded bios would be able to see all of it.  problem still though is
that i can't get into bios any more.

has any one else failed a bios upgrade?  does the system even boot to show
the initial information - bios version, ram amount, etc?  or does it just
not respond?

On 7/18/07, rogerb@bronord.com <rogerb@bronord.com > wrote:
>
> In bios, is there an option to use LBA rather than just autodetect? If so,
> try
> that. It also sounds like you should be sure to put the linux boot
> partition
> towards the beginning of the drive if you are dual booting - to be sure
> that
> you can boot. If the bios is not seeing some sectors, you would not be
> able to
> boot.
> --
> Roger W. Broseus
>   NEW Email: RogerB@bronord.com
>   NEW Web Site: www.bronord.com
>
> > I'm wanted to install Ubuntu ( 7.04, Desktop-i386) on a Gateway 2500
> solo for
> > my brother to get into linux.  The laptop needed some new hardware, so I
> > went out and bought a 40GB HDD and two sticks of 128MB RAM.  BIOS saw
> the
> > RAM fine, but the HDD was only seen as 8.5GB.
> >
> > I figured I would check on updated BIOS for this laptop.  The latest one
> I
> > found was from 2000.  I followed the directions and everything appeared
> to
> > go cleanly; no errors were given during the update procedure.  Once
> > rebooted, I was able to enter BIOS for the laptop and when to configure
> > everything up.  I clicked on the "autodetect" for the harddrive and it
> > froze.  I powered down and turned it back on and I get the BIOS version
> > number, the amount of RAM and right where it should be detecting the
> > harddrive and dvd drive, it does nothing.  I hit F2 to enter bios but
> > nothing.  Is this laptop now (even more so) a paperweight?
> >
> > I'm guessing the next thing to try is clearing CMOS but I'm not sure
> that
> > would even do anything since I really never got the chance to configure
> > anything in the updated BIOS anyways.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
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