Hi there, I actually still have acer travelmate 260, since I will give it to my cousin soon, I wonder if I could at least upgrade the bios? The laptop is using Wistron bios v3.3 (If I'm not mistaken, since it's the only thing displayed on the booting screen)
I only want to know whether it's possible to upgrade bios because the old bios doesn't support usb boot which is suck, I couldnt toy this laptop for multi OS experiments. =(
any help would be appreciated, and also, maybe someone knows how to add boot to usb support when the bios doesnt support it?
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As far as I could find, the 3.3 is the latest sorry. And if the bios doesn't support usb boot I'm pretty sure there is nothing you can do about it..
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oh there is actually an alternative way to boot and loading usb driver during boot, but it requires floppy disk. I wonder if we could do something similar with ISO image? (floppy these days are much more vulnerable, and I think CD could do better)
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You're right, you could use DUSE. I forgot about this option. But still this is not usb boot, but usb support under dos. In that case you have to put a disk in your internal cd-rom, install DUSE's usb support, then use your external cd-rom. But I can't think of any way to use your external usb device to boot directly without native usb boot bios support.
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You could try the 'motto hairu' usb dos driver. Translated readme.txt here
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so uh, sorry if this sounds very noob question, but what do I do with these files? I assume I should copy them to my cd rom something? (I'm still new of this booting stuff, sorry!)
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Dude this is very long to explain here there are ton's of guides on the web try this one for example.
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ah I see, don't worry about that, I thought It could be much simpler. Thanks for the help!
Updating my ancient travelmate 260 bios
Discussion in 'Acer' started by Anadhi, May 31, 2008.