ken wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:28, Joe Landman wrote:
Upgrade your bios. The f.34 bios fixed this for me.
Thanks Joe! That was it. I had f.30 bios, and now f.34 did it. But I had to reinstall windows to update the bios!
Compaq requires you to use windows to flash the bios. Not even DOS! I tried to create a bootable DOS CD and run the flash update from it only to find out that the flash update program won't run in DOS mode. Shees. So I had to start over from scratch, and install Windows again, update the bios and then reinstall Linux. I can't even begin to explain how frustrating this was. In the end I decide on a dual-boot system just in case something like this happens again.
Thanks again,
Ken
Perhaps a nicely written but pointed complaint to your box supplier and/or the BIOS manufacturer would be appropriate ....