Zepto Znote 6014/6214/6314W - BIOS z1.24

Just uploaded the new BIOS released today.

ftp://ftp.zepto.dk/Znote6214W/BIOS/z124.iso

Only different from the previous ones are:

 

We've taken the z1.24 BIOS down as it needed some fine tuning.

 

Good for me that i didn't update my Bios at once when i saw this. For a moment i thought doing so. But then, i don't have that much problems which would require to flash my bios.

 

Can't you just send those BIOS programmers a list of things needed to do and talk business? The number of small updates and the time needed for those to come out is kinda pathetic. And whats "Remember brightness settings" anyway? Isn't that the 4th, 5th or 6th time this issue got "fixed"?

No offense Rene but hell what's wrong with Zepto and the BIOS thing?

 

Completely agree with asdfasdf

A lots of updates without major feature/improvement, it is quite amazing. One other strange thing, with the first bios versions some interesting options were available (like Hardware Virtualization) and they are now hidden, why?
I remenber when I baught my 6214W, some people listed feature needed in the bios, like setting password etc... this list was not so much particular anyway.

 

We have had some problems with the BIOS programers, as we don't do this inhouse. All BIOS things is made by the ODM, in this case Inventec. For 6x14W it started quite OK, but then it got worse and worse and when they fixed one error two others came instead.
Then Inventec changed BIOS programer, and he has from then fixed all the errors that the first one maked, so it's going in the right direction now.

That it takes alot of time I don't agree with. I think in the last 2 weeks it has been like 4 updates? We think it's better to releas the updates as soon as they makes even one good thing, instead of waiting a long time before releasing a singel update that takes care of everything. In that way you can have atleast some of the problems fixed fast.

 

Haha, sounds familiar. Fixing the standby/fan bug was one major step towards a final BIOS and was the only really thing left bugging me.

I own the book a year now that's why I call it "long". Well, at least the fact that there is work in progress is positive. Other manufactures don't give a sh*t supporting one year old hardware.

Or kill your book. Nobody will be mad if you take the time needed for proper testing.

 

I am not blaming Zepto about this, it is just a remark and I think your are pushing Inventec from your side.
Now I just hope the new bios programmer will do a better work and may be add standard features

 

It wasn't a serious bug in the z1.24 that made me take it down. It only remembered the brightness settings when you had turned the notebook on and then corrected the brightness. If you rebooted, made the machine go into standby or shut down the machine it would default to standard settings on both AC and DC.

Within 1½ hours from i contacted the BIOS prgrammer he had fixed it and i'm not uploading the z1.25 which actually gives the possibility of two seperate brightness settings (one on AC and one on DC).

 

gueuze, it was on purpose that we removed a lot of the settings. If we are going to on the new models all depends on what issues we see the users making by messing around in the BIOS.

 

I agree that settings concerning thermal control, voltages or OCing should not be present in a notebook BIOS but by removing VT support you just cut the capability of the C2D CPU. I know that the vast majority don't even know what Intels VT do but those who do shouldn't need to downgrade to an pretty old BIOS version to use the hardware they paid for unrestrictedly. I don't have a C2D myself so I don't care that much but maybe you can make those guy waiting for VT support happy by readding it.

 

So, was it the new BIOS programmer or the old one that was responsible for the 6224 BIOS problems?

 

ridestp, don't know which BIOS programmer is on the new machines yet. I only have contact to our ODM about the "old" machines right now.

 

I would really like to have setting password on my 6214. can I do a request here?