I decided to upate the BIOS on my Packard Bell .dot, so I head over to Packar Bells website to downlaod the update.
When the update finished, the PC restared. The I chose from my OS List to start "Earlier Version of Windows" (aka. Windows XP. I dunno why it says that, but it does say "Windows 7" under it, like it should.).
Now, for a split second, I see:
[quote]Faulty Bios
Starting from ...[/quote]
and then it just restarts.
After "Starting From" theres a directory I don't get to see what it says.
I need help ASAP!
Sounds like your boned... Why did you update your Bios?
why update your bios
Hmm, gonna have to go and tell a fat fuck to reset your bios
I thought it would be good to update :(
Well, hopefully it won't cost me money D:
Did you disconnect power while it was updating the BIOS, and are you sure you updated it for the right model?
Well, I went to Packard Bell, typed in my serial number, it detected the PB .dot and I got the drivers.
And no, I didn't disconnect the power.
For future reference, never update your BIOS unless you have a problem.
I hate to say it, but as far as I know you are screwed. My motherboard has something called dual BIOS which uses a second bios stored permanently if the first one fails (saves you from borking it by doing bios updates and things).
If you don't have that I don't know of any solution except buy a new motherboard, and if you do that you will need to phone microsoft if you have an OEM version of windows (came with a pc) to register it as the keys are tied to motherboards - tell them that your old motherboard broke and they should activate it for you.
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Actually, if someone has a mobo identical to that one, you can flash it from that, but I don't know how... Never needed to do that fortunately.
Well, I am using the PC as we speak, only I am using Windows 7 Instead.
Well that's odd... the bios should be completely fucked if it said that.
It might finish the BIOS install on startup but it fails..?
Either that or its some packard bell bullshit incorrectly calling something a BIOS.
I might have to call Packard Bell, then?
How did you flash the bios exactly? If you got a floppy disk, you should be able to throw the correct bios file on it, put it in and it could possibly reflash it.
It's a netbook. No CD nor Floppy drive.
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And I didn't flash it, I updated it.
Even though it failed horribly.
Ok, the BIOS didn't install or isn't faulty, it's 100% certain that one of those statements is correct if you can boot into 7.
I'd contact packard bell. My Eee PC has a recovery thing if I press a key at startup - it puts everything back to how it was when I bought it.
I did a check again, and it says something about "Faulty BOOT.INI-file" but I cant find such a file.
No matter what, I have deleted XP now.
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