[ale] failed bios upgrade makes desktop Linux only

[Jim Kinney]

I would call that a successful bios upgrade. It got rid of the boot sector
virus called XP :-)

I do suspect that the flash was not entirely successful or was the wrong
image. Any power glitch can cause a corruption.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:21 PM, James Earl Smith <feenix at feenix.us> wrote:

> I was upgrading the bios on a ECS Nforce4m-a  v3.0. After the bios flash
> the computer would not boot properly and the bios would beep 1 long
> repeatedly (video problem).
>
> So to see if I could at lest get it to run, I using Ubuntu 8.04 live cd
> and it booted . After failing to get the computer to reload XP, I loaded
> Ubuntu 8.04 and has been running 99.9% bug free. Out of several restarts
> , the video beeping happened only once.
>
> So with my computers help I am at the present MS$ free.
>
> James Smith
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