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by RAF
Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:23 pm
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: My AMI Bios v7 and windows xp do not recognize all my RAM
Replies: 10
Views: 10981

Its weird, please see if there is a item in bios setup setting usb to disable, or you can try to enter bios setup and load default value. By the way, I can provide a way and you can try... 1) Can your usb keyboard work during bios boot or bios setup? 2) Do you have a bootable disk booting to dos? if...
by RAF
Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:07 pm
Forum: In-depth High-tech BIOS section
Topic: Adding OEM Information to Award Bios on ASUS Boards
Replies: 15
Views: 33990

Hi, Guys, I have to give you some advices. Not all BIOS tools can be used to write DMI, actually the most time it will depend on BIOS itself, there are lots of cases cause the failed on updating DMI. 1) Does bios support SMBIOS/DMI function to write SMBIOS/DMI information. 2) Is there a Flashpart wr...
by RAF
Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:55 pm
Forum: Notebook BIOS and other problems
Topic: Sony Vaio VGN-FS Boot Problem -- Says BIOS
Replies: 4
Views: 8120

Firstly, I dont think you have destroied your bios or vga card, I suggest you re-install O/S and see what will happen. If you system halt during BIOS, please remove the CD-ROM at first.
by RAF
Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:52 pm
Forum: Notebook BIOS and other problems
Topic: ibm t20 bios problems
Replies: 2
Views: 3413

It is quit funny isue, you'd better tell me more information.

1) What had you done causing this issue?
2) Any response if you press F1/F12?
3) Try pressing ESC or Tab key and see what will happen, any message on screen?
by RAF
Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:48 pm
Forum: RAM compatibility with BIOS
Topic: My AMI Bios v7 and windows xp do not recognize all my RAM
Replies: 10
Views: 10981

You would need to update bios to fix this issue.

Please contact MSI at first and see what MSI say. I believe it would be a BIOS issue.
by RAF
Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:27 pm
Forum: Power Management problems
Topic: Windows thinks laptop always on battery
Replies: 1
Views: 6483

I am not sure if I can help you, but I can explain some...

Normally the laptop will use Embedded controller to manage the battery and charge up. The status of system power used to be reported by Embeded controller to APCI O/S, but your laptop is quite old and I am not sure if it will support ACPI. I dont think it will be helpful to update bios, I belive the...
by RAF
Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:14 pm
Forum: BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs
Topic: Phoenix BIOS Editor Pro 2.2, error -1 ?
Replies: 2
Views: 23496

I believe it is becasue the Flashint.bin

The Phoenix BIOS flashable file, which is .wph file defined by phoenix, is composed by two parts. One is the main bios image and it's size would be 512K, 1M, 2M or bigger. The other is a bin file called flashint.bin, which will be called by windows/Dos flash utilities to enable or disable flash. Acc...