On Sat, June 11, 2011 10:36 am, WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Am answering personally because there were no other replies. > > Thanks for all the info! > > Sure makes a difference if you use the correct info in the search and > "aptiva E 190" was not it.
This is one of the reasons why it's annoying when a company markets a product under several different names and/or model numbers. IBM is consistently inconsistent in this respect. :-P > Checked the links and even did another search using "Aptiva 2170" but > could not find anything that mentions what the latest BIOS version > V75EN2E and V75EN4E actually does. Yeah you're right. IBM/Lenovo and many other companies normally include some kind of text file concerning BIOS revisions for what each version fixes or what features are added, so I understand why you'd want to look at that. Unfortunately in this case I don't see a file like that available, and the BIOS link I gave you is really where it should have been if it existed. I think it's probably best to apply the BIOS upgrade, though -- this seems to be indicated online concerning Memory if nothing else. Now, just to let you know this -- if you ever flash a BIOS and it's the wrong BIOS such that the computer won't boot, that does not mean the motherboard is useless. A company I worked at once had a BIOS virus/worm/trojan infection on several machines, and they used an EEPROM programmer to reprogram the EEPROM/FLASH memory chip the BIOS is stored on to fix it. The trick, of course, is that you have to have that hardware (or know someone who does) as well as the correct BIOS version to reflash onto the EEPROM. Let me know how it goes. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 6 - Arduino-palooza Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting Sep 7 - Thing-o-Matic
