BIOS Updates forum

hi guys,
back after a year or so after solving problem in my deskotp,
now it is the turn of my laptop to play traunt; i have a compaq laptop, 2004 bought; windows xp loaded; now the machine is out of warranty; yesterday, while using it i pressed the power button to make it go into hibernation; when ...

hi all!

i believe this is the correct forum for this problem of display resolution of my laptop, compaq presario 2111ap.

as discussed elsewhere, i have managed to install multiboot options of DOS622 /Dos71 after windows XP was pre-loaded on this machine.
while starting the machine on dos i find ...

thanks for the rply; i was not able to look into this for sometime; so didnot respond early.

i had a look at the customer support site;
as you have mentioned there are two updates given:

OS Independent
WinFlash for HP Notebook System BIOS Update - Windows-Based
version date size

» KE.M1.61 ...

hi

i used the floppy to boot the machine with cdrom support and managed the partition work;
is : KE.M1.56 suitable for this and can it be used?

regards
neelakantan

yeah that is right;

the machine was bought from hp authorised centre preloaded with win xp home; later upgraded to xp pro

the bios is still same

my bios details are:
Phoenix bios4.0 Release 6.0
Hewlett-Packard Presario 2100 Bios
Revision KE.M1.54
dated 12/17/02


regards

thanks for the rply

the dvdcdrw model is TEAC DW-224E-C;

this is as identified by XP;
bios doesnot identify.


regards

kachiwachi!

did that though i didnot expect anything;

i set floppy / cdrom / hdd for booting sequence; when the laptop was started it checked the floppy (green light and whirring sound); no response for cdrom (no greenlight!) and went to the preboot bios giving a message (check the cable; no ...

i have a compaq 2111AP laptop; it originally came with a toshiba cdrom;

the cdrom developed a reading trouble and i got the cdrom replaced with dvd/cdrw

i checked for its reading and writing ability when i collected from compaq service center.

recently i was planning to repartition the hard-disk ...

yeah; i also thot so; went to the samsung site and checked and found that the capacity is decimal ; thanks all the same to you and dennis

i just re-attempted the flash; the results are:

1) this time i didnot disable the video ram shadowing or caching; when i tried the file from kuriaki, the flash went well but the machine didnot see the video;
2) i remembered seeing the 7zxasc01.bin as a bios patched for 128 gb; so i tried to flash ...

good morning!

thanks for the two messages mr k and mr d! but i went through the faq once more to do the "blind" flashing using auto exec file.

first answers to ur questions:
aa) i used the dos 6.22boot mgr disk (io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com only); it is a full formated system diskette with ...

bad luck? that is all! :o

i just tried to flash the backed up bios; no use;
also tried the bin file in ur ftp; still of no use!

hmm! which can cmos clear jumper of any use? i dont think i can do hot flash unless i use somebody's computer; even then what bin file shud i use?

can an isa video card ...

HELP Needed urgently! mr kuriakj. ( hope this is the right forum!)

(please refer to the jetway 7zxan 40 gb hdd post in the forum hard disk not recognised)

i did the flashing of the bios with the patched beta version given; the flash went well and i got the message " Please remove the floppy and ...

HELP Needed urgently! mr kuriakj.

i did the flashing of the bios with the patched beta version given; the flash went well and i got the message " Please remove the floppy and press F1 to reset"

accordingly i removed the floppy and pressed F1 and the MACHINE RESTARTED WITH WHIRRING SOUNDS AND BLACK ...

thanks for the zip file;

while trying to flash it through a floppy, i get the message to "enter the name of the rom file"; after entering the name it gives a beep and a flash message "bios protected" and then the machine reboots; should i change the jumper settings in the mboard/ (at present it is ...