[CoLoCo] BIOS help

[John Edwards]

If the BIOS update creates a bootable floppy disk, you should be able to use
it to create a bootable CDRom and use that to do the downgrade, providing
it'll let you.  I've never heard of backing out a BIOS revision, or lowering
it to a previous release before, so that part is out of my league.

If you need help creating a bootable CDRom, I'm certain that someone on this
list can help with that.  It's not something I've done under Linux before.


John Edwards


On 10/25/07, Adams, Scott (FGWA-CO) <Scott.Adams at fgwa.com> wrote:
>
>  I recently had a laptop with BIOS version A03 & Ubuntu 7.04 running
> perfect. I decided that it was time to upgrade bios. (now I remember
> something about, If it's not broke don't fix). Followed instructions for a
> harddrive update for the BIOS to version A11. After that the video would not
> work. I have searched google for several hours. The best solution I can find
> is that I need to downgrade my BIOS to A09. This laptop does not have a
> floppy and the harddrive update for A09 says that is a newer BIOS on machine
> so it won't install. Now for my questions. How do I downgrade my bios or
> even reset it? Also I cannot find a battery or info about one, do all
> computers have a removable CMOS battery??
>
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> Scott Adams
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