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Thread ID: 140176 2015-08-30 22:19:00 One dead PC....CPU or Mobo...or??? kioti (17360) Press F1
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1407650 2015-09-10 01:18:00 BBCmicro, Sleeping Parrot indeed That laptop sounds like a good buy. kioti (17360)
1407651 2015-09-10 01:30:00 Hi Speedy. I found the revision on the mobo, it is 4 and I downloaded the latest BIOS from here drivers.softpedia.com
I have not updated it yet but shall do it today. Hope it all goes well, the existing BIOS I will backup to same USB flash drive as I have the update on.
kioti (17360)
1407652 2015-09-10 07:24:00 You should get it from the gigabyte site. NOT any site Speedy Gonzales (78)
1407653 2015-09-10 10:12:00 You should get it from the gigabyte site. NOT any site
Speedy Gonzales, I agree, I was not to eager to use the BIOS that I had downloaded from Softpedia so I I did get the BIOS from Gigabyte and it was the FK version that was chosen. I had done a good bit of Googling and watching videos/ reading info on doing the BIOS update, in 3 ways. What I did was download a GB Utility Tool that used @BIOS. I used that tool to backup the existing FA BIOS and then used the option to get the BIOS from Gigabyte and instal...done with Windows open. I am glad to say that all turned out well but there was a moment when Computer rebooted, it showed the BIOS as being FK in POST but then it hung at the next screen saying Loading OS. I gave it a while and decided that I will have to enter BIOS and reset the Boot order,,,it had changed and was set to boot from a HDD that was not the drive holding OS etc. All went sweet as when I made the changes and rebooted. Sorry for my late reply and thank you again (y)
kioti (17360)
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