BIOS Updates forum

Whoa, mixup, time to take some time off I guess :oops: Sorry... What is the brand and model of those memory sticks? Are they exactly the same? If not, that might give ACPI blue screen errors. No, the original memory sticks are from Samsung, now I have Crucial ones. In windows you can set it not to ...

Ok, will try and find any info on that if anyone has made this work on the Aspire 1700. I have a desktop, a M1100. Thanks for trying! Your other issue sounds like a hardware limit issue especially since Acer gives a maximum of 2GB total for this laptop anyway. The maximum is 8 Gb according to Acer,...

I've got a response from Acer: "for you computer it is not possible to change the AHCI setting of the Bios, it doen't matter if you install the update or not". :? I have another problem with this Bios, with Windows 7 x64 doesn't start with more then 4 Gb memory installed, and 5 if I use a seperate g...

edwin wrote:and we need to see how easy it is to restore it. Getting back to you soon...

What can I do so you can check it?

should be 6, not 2 You're right! This is from the Acer M1100 bios update How did you extract this info? I fear only Acer can answer that question. Please contact them with your issue on the mismatching bios string. I've updated my question at http://acer-nl.custhelp.com, let's see what they say. Ca...

Sounds like your OS does not natively support this, you need drivers as well, the chipset does, just disable compatibility mode/IDE emulation/whatever (set for native/performance) and it should be in AHCI mode. http://www.wikihow.com/Install-AHCI-Support-for-ATI-SB600-SATA-Controllers-on-Existing-W...

I have a Acer Aspire desktop, model M1100 ( specs here ). My purpose is to make AHCI work for my Crucial M4 SSD, my current Bios doesn't support that. My current Bios is version R01-3, string 10/10/2007-RS290-SB600-6A669FK8C-0. I want to know if it's a good idea to upgrade my BIOS to version R02-B1 ...

cp wrote:Linux has NTFS read/write support. No need to stick with FAT32.

Linux does, but my Argosy networkdrive doesn't...

first of all: is the latest service pack installed? Yes, it is. SP 4 with all the available updates. second: why on earth are you using FAT32? Believe it or not, there is a reason for this. I use this disk normally in my Argosy HD363N external networkdrive , and for this it has to be formatted with...

do not detect the hdd in the bios and set the drive to NONE. once you booted W2k from another hdd you can access your new hdd without problems. Thanks for this suggestion, I've tried this but when I try to access the disk in Windows 2000 Windows says that I have to format the drive, what I dont wan...

which OS are you going to use? if it's Linux, Windows 2K/XP/VISTA there are no problems using the full capacity of the drive once you're within the OS. Hmm... can the OS what the BIOS can't? I don't understand this I'm afraid... But I'm using Windows 2000, and my computer won't bood with the 320 Gb...

edwin wrote:Either use an external controller with its own bios or get a new motherboard.

I've searched for such a card but I can't find it. Not at Paradigit, Mycom or Salland automatisering (direct link).
Do you mean this ones?

09/23/98-i440BX-W977TF-ATC-6220C-00 is the string of an old computer of mine. I want larger HD support, so I'm looking for an Bios update. I couldn't find the exact string in the list of Award ID's , but with some puzzling it seems a A-trend board, the ATC-6220 I think. There is also an old topic on...