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Flashing Bios
Name: betty Date: March 6, 2006 at 17:11:08 Pacific OS: WinME CPU/Ram: 500 mhz 96 megs ram Product: IBM Aptiva
Comment:
If I have an IBM aptiva is it possible to flash the bios to a Dell bios. I bought this neat looking Dell Case from the thrift and just wanted everything to go together.
Name: blackbill Date: March 6, 2006 at 17:30:43 Pacific
Reply:
You do realize that if you screw up a flash... you've pretty much screwed the computer??? I won't even try a flash with my own bios brand unless I absoluilty have to.
No, you cannot flash an IBM system with a Dell BIOS
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Response Number 3
Name: fortinot Date: March 6, 2006 at 17:46:19 Pacific
Reply:
Move all your computer parts to your New Dell Case. Just make sure they fit. You do not need to flash your bios in order to use another computer case.
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Response Number 4
Name: GX1 Man Date: March 6, 2006 at 18:31:15 Pacific
Reply:
No you cannot do that, and I'll bet tyou can't get it to run in the Dell case either. Pieces will not line up correctly, the PSU will probably not work, etc. Good idea, but it doesn't work that way.
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Response Number 5
Name: SkipCox Date: March 6, 2006 at 22:33:24 Pacific
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Everone is/could be correct here; jam is absolutely correct, fortinot is mostly correct and GXI Man could be correct.
The answer to your question is NO.
Skip
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Response Number 6
Name: name Date: March 7, 2006 at 08:46:23 Pacific
Reply:
Please, make it stop
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Response Number 7
Name: XpUser Date: March 7, 2006 at 09:17:22 Pacific
Summary: Hi guys, I'm trying to upgrade my bios because this bios does not fully support my 180 gb hdd (only shows as 128 gb). I downloaded the latest flash bios from Asus and followed the manual for updating ...
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