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Finding BIOS Upgrades?

Posted by Cliff on from the usful-tidbits-to-know dept.

CrazyDwarf asks: "I dug up and old system that my company was about to toss in the dumpster and decided to load Linux on it. My problem: the BIOS will not recognize more than 500 MB of the HDD. I don't have a CD-ROM for this PC. I was looking for a BIOS upgrade download, but AWARD wants me to buy it from some third party. If I could afford to buy it from them, I wouldn't be doing all this, I'd just get a CD-Rom and move on. Where are some good places for me to go find a free (no cost) download to upgrade my BIOS? I have been searching for an hour on Google and have not really found anything."

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  1. Just out of curiosity ... by ninewands · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why does it seem like this is the first "Ask Slashdot" in quite some time that actually falls under the rubric of "News for Nerds, Things that Matter"???

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    utter rubbish
  2. really really by XO · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wish we could moderate the actualy articles. I view with EVERYTHING on the front page.. so i hope this didn't actually show on the front page.. but from number of responses, i guess it did.

    CmdrTaco/CowboyNeal: please give us the ability to moderate stories away from the front page.

    This one just doesn't deserve to be there. We all know how to find BIOS updates, and we all know the answer to his problem.

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