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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. linuxpro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    here is an open sores BIOS!

  2. Do what your company was doing. by duffbeer703 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Chuck the thing in the dumpster.

    The days of "I can run linux great on a 486" are long over. If you decide to run a desktop system with a recent version of KDE or GNOME, even a slow pentium 2 is brought to it's knees.

    My advice to you would be to pick up a cheap PC from somewhere that is 733+ MHz... you should be able to find something for less that $200.

    --
    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
  3. Re:Did you think about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck you since you're a jew loving nigger ANYWAY

  4. Dear Slashdot; by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to get this cool computer program called "Maya" but I don't want to spend the money they charge for it, since it defeats the purpose of having a cheap computer. Where can I download it from? Tks.