BIOS Updates forum

Your BIOS chip is located on the bottom of the laptop almost center under a small door. The BIOS chip is mounted (soldered) onto a small removable "sub-board". You can either try and find that whole sub-board and replace it, or you can contact me and we'll reprogram your BIOS chip and remount it to ...

What is the exact identification of the LAN adaptor built on the logicboard?

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at27c256r <~ this is probably your KBC ROM / Keyboard controller ROM (possibly your video BIOS)

at29c0c20 <~ this is your BIOS ROM

Are youin the USA or outside the USA? Is the BIOS ROM socketed or soldered to the board?

Joe

Also, you can check the situation by feeling the processor, if it gets hot when the power button is pushed, a BIOS replacement may fix it.

Joe

Hello, with the condition you are describing you most likely have a power problem rather than just a BIOS problem now.. The Sony Vaio line is known for these "power conditions" after a bad flash, and all the damage is done while the BIOS update is performing the KBC (keyboard) update. There is a sli...

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The BIOS link in Soupy's post is revision: RO216

have you tried this revision?

Be careful, if you have a password in place you may have problems with the BIOS update.

Joe

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For the innova try hitting: FN + F7 to switch displays...

Can't find any info on the Campus 486 laptop..

Joe

Hi, It's not vital to have that "save to disk" partition, but if you don't want to see that warning message at bootup everytime you'll need to create it. As Rainbow said, there may be a utility that you can download to create this partition and do away with the message. The "Save to disk" partition ...

Hello, What happened with you trying to boot with a good clean bootdisk? If you have not tried that yet, create a bootdisk from ANY windows machine and remove everything on that disk except for command.com see if it boots from that disk? It seems to me that, if it does boot from that boot disk, this...

Usually it's F1 for most of the Versa line...

I have seen on occasion it being CTRL + ALT + S

..and sometimes only DEL as well...

Joe

Does it give you floppy drive access? did you check the floppy disk for a backup of the old BIOS image?

I try to hang around where there is action.

Give it a try, be open for all possibilities..

hopefully you can get this resolved without paying anything..

Joe

Were you given the option to "Backup" the old BIOS before flashing?

What is the solution the manufacturer is offering?

What model is this laptop? Did they just offer one model?

Joe

Have you or are you able to enter the BIOS and restore / load "Setup Defaults"?

Joe