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I have a GP6-450 with a Jabil BX Motherboard w/ Integrated Audio R1,
part # 4000434.
I want to update the bios to a later version from what I currently
have, which is 4w4sboxo.15a.0006.p04
The only downloadable bios on the Gateway website for this board is
4W4SB0X0.15A.0019.P14
I've followed the install instructions. The bios update program begins
and gets to 75% complete, to the point where it says something like
loading bios files.
It then stops and I get a message, from within the BIOS update utility,
"the update was unsuccessful".
The old bios still works fine after this. I've tried different
flopppies formatted in various ways (from win98, from DOS) but still no
joy.
I've been leaving the bios jumpers on the board in normal position
since there is no instruction to do otherwise.
Is this bios incompatible with his board? Is there something else I
should try?
I have a GP6-450 with a Jabil BX Motherboard w/ Integrated Audio R1,
part # 4000434.
I want to update the bios to a later version from what I currently
have, which is 4w4sboxo.15a.0006.p04
The only downloadable bios on the Gateway website for this board is
4W4SB0X0.15A.0019.P14
I've followed the install instructions. The bios update program begins
and gets to 75% complete, to the point where it says something like
loading bios files.
It then stops and I get a message, from within the BIOS update utility,
"the update was unsuccessful".
The old bios still works fine after this. I've tried different
flopppies formatted in various ways (from win98, from DOS) but still no
joy.
I've been leaving the bios jumpers on the board in normal position
since there is no instruction to do otherwise.
Is this bios incompatible with his board? Is there something else I
should try?