I've got this old laptop on which I would like to upgrade the BIOS. When I recieved the laptop (won off ebay) the BIOS was a 1998 version. I tried to update it but it wouldn't let me, as the laptop didn't have a battery installed. I looked on the net and found a way around this and updated it anyway.

I used the BIOS off this page:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/s...

which is clearly dated Ocotber 2001.

The BIOS did update successfully (and did in fact fix an issue I was hoping it would). However, for some reason the BIOS date is now 1999! Am I missing something?

Thanks for any advice.

Alex

It is possible the bios version you now have was first written in 1999, and re-published in 2001. The fact that it has fixed whatever issue you had is the important thing. congratulations.

I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

That might be the case actually, looking at the grid below on the page, thanks for the reply!