Gericom Hydrospeed

[Rado]

Hi folx !
I have got a Gericom Hydrospeed (same as fic chino / fic nb2000)
Some time ago i upgraded it with a AMD K6-2+ 500.
To recognize the cpu i had to update the bios (phoenix). I found it at ftp://ftp.gericom.com (it´s the nb2000dmi.zip file)
After the update the laptop recognized the cpu correctly (the string is : 2k0322-5410-1.0n-1)
But the bios has two serious bugs:
First of all the cpu-fan stops spinning when win2k/winxp is booted and it won`t start again ... with win9x an winme everything is ok.
And the second bug : The infrared port doesn`t work with this bios.

My question : Is there somewhere a newer bios or does someone have this laptop and knows how to solve this problems ?

P.S. I also have tried the fic chino bios, but this is an old bios !
Gericom doesn`t know how to help either ....
thanx,
Rado

[Rado]

Up to now I tried all different bioses from Gericom
Bios zip file: Bios string:
2xC1.0f 1.0F-3707-6211/083A0900
2xC1.0g 1.0i-3709-6211/2319192c
2xC1.0i 1.0i-3709-6211/2319192c (yes it seems to be the same as above)
2xC0-L 1.0L-3709-6211/2319192c

Now i`ve got the 2xC1.0i bios running. The fan works, the infrared works but AMD K6/2+ is not recognized.
With 2xC0-L whitch seems to be more up to date the infrared doesn`t work
As the latest from Gericom has 1.0n-1 i hope that somewhere there would be a 1.0n-2 or something, where infrared and fan works AND AMD K6/2+ is recognized.

[Rado]

Oh, and i saw that the exact string for the Dmi2000zip file bios is :

1.0n-5410-6211/2319192c