On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:I take your point about the warrenty issue problem but if you save your old bios to disc it is possible to reinstall it should you need to send the equipement back.Alternatively , it is quite cheap to buy a spare bios chip, I did quite recently, cost me �5 for a modern type chip and install the upgrade on that , then you can merely change the bios chip over to go back to the original.
Marc wrote:
Maybe the problem is your bios needs upgrading ?
John
Thats what I thought also but first something with bios that screwed up should have never been shiped and second the owner of the machine is concerned with warrenty issues that a bios upgrade could cause. This machine is only a few months old. IMHO a person should not have to screw around for hours to simply be able to begin to install a different OS. Even with the cheep low end machines I have never seen anything like this!! Also my MAIN point is that the bios must have almost been made that way on purpose for it to not reconise any HDD with a non Microsux OS on it. I would guess that it would be possible to get a bios upgrade from intel but difficult at best to get one from Gateway but I may look into it further.
Marc
Still, the starting point here is go onto the mobo website and start looking up your current bios version and see what it's is rated for then download all the updates there are for that mobo from that point onwards.
When you get them unpacked, there is usually a readme to say what it was the bios upgrade did in order to fix something or other. Maybe it will say something about extending supported file systems ? who knows, then I think I would try to contact the mobo directly and ask them if they think upgrading the bios might help you overcome file system recognition dificulties, stating exactly what file systems you want the bios to support.
John
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