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Compact Flash Drives and BIOS settings
Blog Differences in timing between the Compact Flash and the IDE interface seem to cause problems most frequently when the BIOS is in control of the UDMA capabilities programmed into most CPU boards. That's usually the “Auto” mode for the IDE port BIOS...
[July 20, 2009, 9:10]
Tuesday
Blog Intel wanted to do away with the PC's BIOS, replacing it with an extensible mini-operating system called EFI. Or is it just the BIOS, and I can safely put away my Pentium timing diagrams and the original PC Hardware Reference Guide.
[February 28, 2003, 16:50]
Linux and Disk Partitions
Blog The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, specifically as it relates to PC BIOS systems, and to make a suggestion about partition names and references. A typical PC BIOS will allow a maximum of four partitions to be...
[January 20, 2009, 16:09]
Hitch with the audio system
Blog Thinking it might be a conflict with the onboard port, I went into the BIOS and disabled it. So I swapped the card into another machine and re-enabled the onboard port in boron’s BIOS. Today I started development of the software to control the...
[May 13, 2008, 10:43]
HP Mini 2140 - Strongly Recommended!
Blog Once I got past the problem with the BIOS setup claiming that it had a Dual Core CPU, loading UNR 9.04 was easy. Whew, at least no fiddling with the BIOS for that was necessary. I was very impressed with it, and after just a few days of using it...
[July 7, 2009, 9:33]
HP Mini 2140 - I Get To Try One!
Blog Maybe a BIOS problem.well, the BIOS in this (brand new) system is indeed one revision out of date. Download and install the new BIOS.no problems.try to boot.no dice, still crashes! Reinstall, just in case the BIOS change has some effect on...
[July 1, 2009, 15:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It would cost pennies to add a circuit to a PC so that the BIOS can only be writeable for, say, an hour after a button on the PC had been pressed (or a link removed and replaced). It's not really possible to find a more harmful payload than one...
[April 30, 1999, 22:41]
ASUS N10J - Netbook or Notebook?
Blog It took a few trips into BIOS setup to get all the devices defined and in the right order so that it would boot what I wanted, when I wanted, but eventually it was ok. I have installed a variety of Linux distributions on it (details below), and in...
[July 17, 2009, 12:10]
Boot from an SD Memory Card
Blog Many newer computers, with newer BIOS, are able to boot from a flash memory card. This is so cool that I'm just sitting here giggling about it. My HP 2133 systems can do that. So I just used the latest Ubuntu 9.04 Beta LiveCD, which has a "USB...
[April 1, 2009, 12:59]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I learn that the latest EFI version — UEFI 2.0, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which is replacing the threadbare BIOS — has grown more networking capabilities, better 64-bit support, superior flash upgrading skills and is generally...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
DeviceVM's proprietary/Linux split explained
Blog While the application environment of Splashtop is based on Linux, the part of Splashtop that is embedded into BIOS and achieves the instant-on first screen is based on a proprietary RTOS that DeviceVM developed.
[June 2, 2008, 12:39]
Mandriva Linux gets flashy
Blog Not every PC has a BIOS that allows booting from a USB drive, but there is a workaround involving a small CD image on the stick that you burn onto a disc and boot from with the USB stick inserted. I've been using Mandriva's new Linux-distribution...
[January 4, 2007, 11:13]
HP 2133 and Linux - Strange Happenings
Blog After a lot of scratching around, it looks to me like this is a BIOS problem of some sort. Well, this is about as strange as anything I have ever seen on a computer. I have mentioned in a couple of my write-ups on the HP 2133 Mini-Note that the...
[March 19, 2009, 13:03]
Renewed Adventures with Vista
Blog Once that was all done, I downloaded the updated drivers from the Fujitsu support web site - audio, video, fingerprint reader, media slot, shock sensor and a BIOS update. Microsoft says "Get the facts.
[August 5, 2008, 8:48]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon swings on the Asus Eee
Blog First problem: although the BIOS spotted the USB external CD-ROM, and would let us select it first in the boot order, it refused to actually boot from it first, choosing instead to revert to the trashed internal flash drive.
[October 26, 2007, 16:10]
Ubuntu Netbook Remix "Acid Test" - Wrap-Up
Blog There was a minor problem that required changing one BIOS setting, but once that was done UNR installed and worked flawlessly again. Time to wrap up one more open item - my informal "Acid Test" of UNR.
[July 8, 2009, 8:03]
DebbieToo has a brother named paqman and HIT * chores
Blog Discovered that she had an early and faulty version of ACPI in the BIOS. paqman (small p, yes I'm converting to *nix-isms) is a small ATX case 700 MHz P3 with 512MB of RAM and (these days) a relatively small hard drive of 20 GB.
[July 7, 2008, 9:48]
Zero cost recovery - part 1
Blog Removes Windows Login passwords while Christophe Greniers Find CMOS PWD reveals most BIOS passwords. Most of the utilities I turn to to fix sick PCs are free. Even more conveniently some of my favourite are bundled on The Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD...
[December 1, 2008, 7:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog However, some good news: if you buy your Windows XP preinstalled, then you can do what you like to your PC short of changing the BIOS and you won't have to re-activate. Friday 5/10/2001 To Microsoft's Soho HQ, where yours truly and a selection of...
[October 8, 2001, 15:03]
Junkbox Printer Server
Blog The ACPI BIOS will need to have an IRQ on the NIC set to trigger the wakeup and return from suspend. In my position of “homestead-IT-director” I have a couple of users that are starting to need daily access to the HP ink-jet printer currently...
[April 12, 2009, 18:10]
