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    Help - bios update on 7811 w/ Win 7

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by irablumberg, Nov 5, 2009.

  1. irablumberg

    irablumberg Notebook Consultant

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    I attempted to run a bios update on my 7811 and it failed. It seems the windows based bios update program is not compatible with Win 7.

    Can anyone send me a copy of the various bios updates in the DOS versions, or a link to these files?

    Thanks,
    Ira
     
    irablumberg, Nov 5, 2009
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    AGlobalThreatsK Notebook Evangelist

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    Are you doing - right-click - Run As Administrator
     
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  3. irablumberg

    irablumberg Notebook Consultant

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    Yes. The error says that the WMD driver is not compatible with Win 7.

    Ira
     
    irablumberg, Nov 6, 2009
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    What's the reason for updating your bios?
     
    Vegasr, Nov 6, 2009
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  5. irablumberg

    irablumberg Notebook Consultant

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    The notebook occassionally freezes when going to sleep. I want to try an older bios to see if that fixes the problem. I have tried everything else I can think of.

    Ira
     
    irablumberg, Nov 7, 2009
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    Have you tried reinstalling Vista on a partition in your HD or either getting a cheap hard drive to install vista on for just this sort of situation?

    Also what Win7 are you using? If ultimate you can try to run the flasher in XP
     
    Kamin_Majere, Nov 7, 2009
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