Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-20 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 23:57 +0100, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> Do a cold start and repeatedly hit the del key (or whatever it shows as > >> the > >> magic key on the bottom of the screen as it complete

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-19 Thread Theodore Papadopoulo
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Do a cold start and repeatedly hit the del key (or whatever it shows as the magic key on the bottom of the screen as it completes the P.O.S.T. procedure) to get into the motherboards bios. At least the del key is th

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-18 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:44 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > > I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: > > > > http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- > > linux/ > > I'm not sure I understand the term "reco

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a flop

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Kevin Kempter wrote: I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- linux/ I'm not sure I understand the term "recovery" in this context. My understanding was that if you trashed your BIOS, fixi

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:57:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a fl

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: >On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy >> >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain h

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a écrit : > > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 17/12/2009 16:20, Aaron Konstam a écrit : > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, François Patte wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a écrit : >>> The last time I installed a new BIOS on

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 09:07 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > > >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a écrit : > > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-17 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > >accomplish this? Please be as detailed as

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-16 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a écrit : > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing th

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can >accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the >procedure. Most bios these days are equ

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-16 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:19 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:10 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a > > floppy > > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > > accomplish this? Please be as deta

Re: Installing a new BIOS on a Dell Computer

2009-12-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:10 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a > floppy > disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the > procedure. I have no Dell co