UPDATE BIOS 2.6.3

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/23/2010 02:18 AM, axel wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu 8,04 on a Dell Inspiron 1501
>
> Intermittently ...When I boot up (or try to), I get two bug messages:
>
>
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> 1. MP_BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>
> 2. PCI: BIOS BUG #81 [49435000] found
>
>
>
> Sometimes, the booting up process completes anyway; sometimes it
> doesn't. When it doesn't, I get stopped at an initramfs prompt and can't
> get beyond that.
>
> I have updated GRUB ...and this seems to help i.e. the booting up
> process is completed.But the BUG message still appears in the start up
> sequence screens
> With no luck I have tried to find a "download" for a Dell/Linux BIOS ,
> so I can update my BIOS : the problem arises in that the available "BIOS
> downloads" are directed at "Windows Users": I had Windows
> Vista....chucked it out and loaded Ubuntu in its place. So now the
> problem really is that I cant find a "Ubuntu based BIOS UPDATE "
> Can you help
>
>    
         Yes. A BIOS update comes from the mother board maker, not 
Windows or Ubuntu. Try that for a BIOS update. I have never updated a BIOS.


73 Karl


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