[Cialug] bios fubar?

[neal daringer]

ok. it just resurected itself. (shucks i needed a doorstop). i tried 
starting it up w/o the battery in it and voila it works now. wtf is that 
crap???? btw its a  Dell Latitude CPi  (Pentium II 364Mhz :-D, 128MB 
ram).. thank god it works again. now i need to get DOOM3 on this baby 
and go to town!!

on another note, have you ever heard of a case like this?? where the 
battery is just so jacked up that the only way to run a laptop is to not 
use the battery??


 jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
> Do you get a cursor on the screen at all?  If you're willing to share, 
> what's the make/model.  Some systems I've seen retain a basic set of 
> functionality for video, keyboard, and floppy so a bios can be flashed 
> if the current one is damaged.  Granted...that was a desktop board.
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 2:02 PM, neal daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com 
> <mailto:admin at c0wzftp.com>> wrote:
>
>     i recently was updating the bios on an old laptop, it showed that it
>     finished. then it said, press enter to reboot. i pressed enter. then
>     nothing. it will turn on, but i does not show anything nor act like it
>     is doing anything worthwhile. any ideas on what i can do or is it
>     now a
>     nice big paperweight/doorstop/booster seat/pretend
>     computer/etc/etc/etc????
>
>     kinda pisses me off too because i got the bios update from the
>     manufacters website. fyi its wayyyyyyyyyyy out of warranty.
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