On Saturday 16 September 2006 22:50, Friedrich Göpel wrote: > On 14:02 Sat 16 Sep , Mick wrote: > > On 13/09/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > What happens with the latest BIOS updates that some idiotic > > manufacturers only provide as WinXP executables? > > I had that problem with my burner because for some reason the dos tools > flat out refused to work, so I slapped the windows exe on a Windows PE > (=Preinstallation Enviroment) Iso burned it and booted from that. > That's basically a Windows LiveCD, except it takes half an hour to boot > and there's no applications. > > It is a sucky solution, but not as much as having to actually install > windows/swap out the hardware.
Thank you. I've used Bart's PE LiveCD, but it won't run to complete booting. It hangs at the "detecting hardware . . ." stage. Same with a WinXP Pro installation CD that I tried to use a year or so ago. Not sure if the hardware is faulty or this machine will only accept a manufacturer's image CD. As it happens I've got all the important BIOS flash versions for this laptop, but I noticed that more recent computers don't offer the DOS flashing images anymore. -- Regards, Mick
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