Finding BIOS Upgrades? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 23, 2002 @02:07PM 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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Re:Openbios might be tha ticket by sporktoast · 2002-07-23 15:50 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm sorry, sometimes it takes me a few tries to understand some things.
Are you saying that this is some sort of pipe dream or something?

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In a related story, the IRS has recently ruled that the cost of Windows upgrades can NOT be deducted as a gambling loss.