HELP : flash wrong bios on Q210

Hi.

EDIT : Turns out i flashed the right bios, it was a driver from a battery wear checking program that was giving me the error.

I had a problem with my old P4 laptop of a brand new battery going from 0% wear to 15% in under a week! , so the first thing i did was run a check on my new notebook, for some unkown reason the program did not like my new bios!

I did a restore from the recover partion, back to the first time i swiched on my laptop and i get 0 errors.

So everything turned out OK.

Regards

John.

 

You need an ISO file version of the (old) BIOS update, create a bootable CD and follow the instructions here.

However, Samsung don't seem to have published any ISO file BIOS updates for the new models so, assuming that they all have the same structure, you could see if you can modify one of the older BIOS update ISO files.

Alternatively, contact Samsung technical support and make them aware of the problem and see if they can offer a solution.

John

 

Hi.

I tried disabling all startup in msconfig and the error dose not come up now, So i think it might just be Samsung battery manager that is giving me the error.

I am now going to turn things back on and isolate the problem.

thanks

John.

EDIT : the file is called "battery info helper dll" in MSconfig

 

Hi.

UPDATE : I have done a full c: driver format and re-installed Vista and everything seems to be working fine.

One plus i got rid of all the Office 2007 bloatware!!

Thanks

John.

 

Thanks for the update. Microsoft significantly changed the ACPI between Vista and XP.

John

 

Is it worth updating the the BIOS from 04 to 06? Anything noticable anyway?

 

The 06 is dated the 19/09/2008 and the 04 is dated 21/08/08

I would not bother at the moment, unless you fancy re-installing your os.

maybe the 06 is vista/xp and the 04 is vista only, i dont know, if you have a look at my second picture!

 

Meh, I just wanted to know whether there were any extra features to the new bios.
Cheers.

 

Hi.

Nothing new as far as i can tell, did you get the fujitsu or the hitachi HDD in your Q210

I got an hitachi in mine!

 

ooooh, I got the fujitzu, we should run benches to see who's best

BTW what are the idle temp on your HDD

Just been playing the Suffering, now on firefox and wmp and its 50C

 

Hi.

Download hdtune

My highest score is 58mb`s

Is 50c you highest temp or idle temp. , run defrag for 10mins and see what you get!

My HDD temps are notebook on for at least 20 minutes to warm up.

IDLE left for 10 minutes 43c

BROWSING NET for 10 minutes 44-45

DEFRAGGED HDD for 15 minutes 47c

 

I defragged a couple days ago, it took ages.

Ohh hdtune kk

EDIT: Just did it and I think I beats you haha
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292/ManicPenguins/HDtune.png
During the test HDD temp went to 54C, is my HDD warmer because its a little faster?

 

The MHZ2320BH result is very similar to what I measured a few months back.

However, it looks like the Hitachi runs a little cooler and, by inference, uses less power.

John

 

How is the fan noise in it when it is around 50 degrees??

 

The HDD doesnt have a fan, only the CPU does. But the fan noise is really quiet, especially in Quiet mode.




EDIT: Thanks for the link John, Ive got a very good (warm) HDD then, that beats Seagates 7K2?

 

Well i know the HDD don't have a fan.... but my point was if the fan for CPU/GPU is runing at all when you are using it for browsing internet and so on....

 

Hi.

I have found out that i did not flash the wrong bios and have edited post 1

thanks

John.

PS. "Manic Penguins" , your REP is looking a lot better, the NBR still will not let me give you any more!!

 

Thanks for the update on the cause of the problem.

It's still a useful thread title since people sometimes have had problems with newer BIOSes. So this thread title should help people how to figure out how to downgrade the BIOS.

John