I'm Upgrading My bios on my 5300 solo gateway laptop because it's running to hot. Everytime I try and flash it i get a non-system disk error message. I've tried a IBM formatted disk and a system disk....they both get the same error message..any advice would be a great help. Thanks

Brandon Kovatch

"Everytime I try and flash it i get a non-system disk error message"

Does that mean you can't boot on a floppy?

If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2

flashing your bios probably isnt going to do anyhting about the heat. is your laptop set to boot to a floppy in the bios or is it set to cd?

I have no idea if its set to cd or floppy. how do you check that?? and is there anything i cou;d do about the heat...it's a laptop and it's not exactly the best for adding hardware...lol...

Brandon Kovatch

In the BIOS is where you tell it which device to boot to. As for the heat, not much you can do about it, when the system is active and not in standby, it is going to generate some heat. So you are saying it is just uncomfortable to use, not that the cpu is overheating then, correct?