🚀 go-pugleaf

>You again... :)
Hey, I'm everywhere.  Hope to meet you at the nclug meeting tonight if I get
enough of this program done.

>Finally, newer gateways had FLASH bioses, and may be soldered on the
>board.  You may be looking at the keyboard BIOS, and not the
>system BIOS...  Beats me, though... :)

You're right, I should have looked at the motherboard more closley first.
EVERYTHING is soldered on, so forget the BIOS replacement idea.  I was just
out of things to try.

>Also, is it a dead bios, or is it realted to your new hard drive?  Does it
>work without the HD plugged in?
    The hard drive isn't new, it came with the computer, so it SHOULD have
worked by just putting the new IDE cable it (given to me without one), but
it didn't.

As for the computer being new, it's old enough that the gateway web page
doesn't recognise the serial number and won't even give my
e-mail to a tech support guy.



Michael Dwyer wrote in message <727mgp$4pss@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>...
>Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
>: My question:  How do motherboards and BIOS work?  If I put a new BIOS
chip
>: in, does it have to be the same type, or can I just snag an AMI BIOS of
>: another motherboard that I have?  Any other suggestions would also be
>: appreciated.
>


  I swapped some old 286 AT bioses without ill effect.
>As far as I know, you can plug them in and see what happens.  Obviously,
>you should swap them between similar machines -- ie, a 286 bios won't work
>in a 386.

    Not so obvious to me.  All I know is what the BIOS acronym stands for,
but I'm stil unsure as to what it DOES.  That's why I asked though.