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[ILUG] Advice on laptop BIOS failure

[ILUG] Advice on laptop BIOS failure

Conor Wynne conor at discuskeeping.com
Fri Dec 9 20:45:24 GMT 2005


On 9 Dec 2005, at 18:08, Patrick Tuite wrote:

> Apologies for the careless spelling.

You spelt it wrong, "the careless top posting". No worries though.

> On Friday 09 December 2005 18:04, Patrick Tuite wrote:
>> I once tried to replace a hard drive on a sony vaio 505fx, a 4GB  
>> with a
>> 10GB and it would not work. Looked to me like it would not accept the
>> bigger capacity drive. Latest BIOS was installed. I don't know if  
>> that
>> could be you're trouble.

Yes, that can happen allright, more so with old chipsets and spanking  
new disks.

>>
>> Patrick

Regards
Conor. 



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