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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. Pretty old system by MrResistor · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Old enough, by the sound of things, that running X would likely be painful. You should be able to squeeze a non-GUI install into 500M without too much difficulty. Check out TinyApps for so small distros.

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  2. Re:Do what your company was doing. by foniksonik · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Where do you live that $200 is almost a month's rent?

    that seems quite incredible in this inflated world we live in... I'm living at home with the family for a few months and I still pay more for my room.

    When I was renting a single apartment it was more like $1200 a month. Yeah, I'm saving a lot so I can get in to the market when it hits bottom later this year.

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