BIOS Updates forum

Well, I was wrong about my USB ports working correctly. It seems that there is another issue here. Sometimes when I plug the flash drive in it flashes (which for my drive is not good) The light on my drive is supposed to remain lit when plugged in and when "safely remove hardware" is used then the l...

Maybe you have to check what is listed in device manager and remove any USB ports with a in front of them, and let windows redetect them. edwin, I checked that hoping to see a problem there, but I saw no problems. :( The gateway site has an update for chipset and usb for our model. Are you game? Do...

Ok, so here is what I did. I downloaded the Driver Free Disk For BIOS Flashing disk per your link and copied those files to a floppy. I then copied the following files from the DOS folder I mentioned above to the floppy: BEEP.COM BIOS.REC IFLASH.EXE P19-0057.B11 P19-0057.B12 P19-0057.B13 P19-0057.B1...

making the bootable bios update disk So edwin, is the best way to make the floppy disc as I described to rleescott. By taking the files in the DOS folder and copying them and nothing else to a floppy? There are 13 files in the DOS folder. autoexecbat - with the following: beep iflash BEEP.COM - wit...

Can you run dxdiag from the run dialogue and see if it says you have the E2000? Actually, my computer is dead so I can't run anything like dxdiag. But I did see something somewhere that mentioned E-2000, though I can't remember what it was. Can you link me to instructions on how to copy the existin...

I can help you verify which board that you have. I am assuming that you also have the same 500SE that I have which you can tell by looking at the image that I posted above. To get your board number, go here: http://support.gateway.com/support/memory/memory.asp Get your Serial number off the rear of ...

I recently flashed my Gateway 500SE. It seems I have what Gateway calls a Nimitz Motherboard, though I am not sure if that helps much. It seems to be an 845GRG board, but I am not absolutely certain. The Bios version beforehand was RG84510A.15A.0009.P03 I did quite a bit of research before I tried f...