Anyone have an old bios for the PB810 / FM530 Motherboard

Does anyone have an OLD version of the bios for the Packard Bell 810
motherboard - also known as the FM350

I currently flashed to the latest bios available 1.25i
However, it will not let me restore my system from the Master CD now.
I was hoping for an earlier version of this bios please.


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On Jan 9, 8:48*pm, Was Immer ) wrote:
Does anyone have an OLD version of the bios for the Packard Bell 810
motherboard - also known as the FM350

I currently flashed to the latest bios available 1.25i
However, it will not let me restore my system from the Master CD now. *
I was hoping for an earlier version of this bios please.

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You must find someone who has an 810MB and is willing to mod the bios.
The Restore CD should work.
What error are you receiving when using restore CD.

I guess I'm going to buy a new or replacement motherboard off of
FleeBay. I upgraded the BIOS and it will not restore. It stops mid-
way through restore.

Just freezes.

Thanks anyways




On Jan 9, 8:48=A0pm, Was Immer ) wrote:
Does anyone have an OLD version of the bios for the Packard Bell 810
motherboard - also known as the FM350

I currently flashed to the latest bios available 1.25i
However, it will not let me restore my system from the Master CD
now. =A0
I was hoping for an earlier version of this bios please.

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You must find someone who has an 810MB and is willing to mod the bios.
The Restore CD should work.
What error are you receiving when using restore CD.



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Hello Was !

"Was Immer" wrote in message news:47856b64$0$5122

I currently flashed to the latest bios available 1.25i
However, it will not let me restore my system from the Master CD now.
I was hoping for an earlier version of this bios please.


I'm thinking that something might be set wrong in BIOS, or there is a
problem with the CD, or other. ( see below )

What OS are you trying to install ? Try a different CD or OS and see what
happens. There could also be a coincidental hardware problem. ( I'm
currently repairing a motherboard that has bad electrolytic capacitors. One
OS CD *will* install, but another one won't for example. )

If it's getting part of the way through an install and freezing, this
usually means that there is a compatibility problem, usually the video
driver.

You might also try re-seating the memory simms, or swapping them out.

I would not give up on this, because I'm doubting the BIOS upgrade is the
real problem. You might have had this same problem *even if you had not
flashed the BIOS* and were trying to do a re-install for whatever the reason
is that you are doing it in the first place. After all, there is a reason
you are doing both, and we don't know the full details yet.

In other words, what did you try first ? Were you re-installing your OS,
and it failed so you flashed the BIOS, or did you flash the BIOS for some
reason, then try to re-install your OS? Why do both? Was there a problem
with the OS *before* the flash, or after ? Rarely does someone do both
things at the same time.

So I'm suspecting that the flash is not the real problem here.

( but it could be. :-)

bobwatts


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On Jan 10, 8:30*am, "Robert E. Watts" wrote:
Hello Was !

"Was Immer" wrote in message news:47856b64$0$5122
I currently flashed to the latest bios available 1.25i
However, it will not let me restore my system from the Master CD now.
I was hoping for an earlier version of this bios please.

I'm thinking that something might be set wrong in BIOS, or there is a
problem with the CD, or other. *( see below )

What OS are you trying to install ? *Try a different CD or OS and see what
happens. There could also be a coincidental hardware problem. ( I'm
currently repairing a motherboard that has bad electrolytic capacitors. One
OS CD *will* install, but another one won't for example. )

If it's getting part of the way through an install and freezing, this
usually means that there is a compatibility problem, usually the video
driver.

You might also try re-seating the memory simms, or swapping them out.

I would not give up on this, because I'm doubting the BIOS upgrade is the
real problem. You might have had this same problem *even if you had not
flashed the BIOS* and were trying to do a re-install for whatever the reason
is that you are doing it in the first place. After all, there is a reason
you are doing both, and we don't know the full details yet.

In other words, what did you try first ? *Were you re-installing your OS,
and it failed so you flashed the BIOS, or did you flash the BIOS for some
reason, then try to re-install your OS? Why do both? *Was there a problem
with the OS *before* the flash, or after ? Rarely does someone do both
things at the same time.

So I'm suspecting that the flash is not the real problem here.

( but it could be. *:-)

bobwatts

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EartH
Watts Carburetion Service
Whizzbang Computers

It has been my experience with may PB systems that a Restore half way
through has
had nothing to do with bios.
I have seen this numerous times.


Very often it is the HD is too full .
I always recommend formatting the HD first.


I also recommend making sure the master CD is clean and scratch free.
I also recommend that if you have a system that boots from the CD but
also has the
option to use the restore floppy with the CD-then use the floppy.


I also need to know the Master CD # and or floppy #.



If the failure is somewhere near mid way and how you know that is
beyond me
it is either ram drive problem or a available memory on fixed disk
problem and most like
fixed disk.

Could it be bios problem
Yes but usually this ocuurs after a 1st reboot during restore and
after all info has been placed on HD


Could it still be bios
Yes
How likely
Less than 50% certainty

"Was Immer" wrote in message
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Does anyone have an OLD version of the bios for the Packard Bell 810
motherboard - also known as the FM350

I currently flashed to the latest bios available 1.25i
However, it will not let me restore my system from the Master CD now.
I was hoping for an earlier version of this bios please.





restore CD's are typically tied to the bios

However...any generic win95/98 cd should be able to give you your OS back