Blue Screen on Laptop Clevo M400A

Hello All,

PC brief:
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz, x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 6
Processor Count: 1
RAM: 1022 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 , 128 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 76308 MB, Free - 68698 MB;
Motherboard: Clevo Co., M400A, D04, Not Applicable
Antivirus: None

I have a Laptop which first running with Clevo M450C motherboard. My Technician replaced my motherboard with Clevo M400A as my previous crashed. With this one, I keep getting over and over blue screens. First was getting these screens when running windows updates, when viewing flash websites or during installation of MS Office 2007. At first I thought it was Windows problem not syncronizing with motherboard BIOS, ROM etc, so Installed all over again Windows XP (as you can see on top of this thread). The problem remains, so thought maybe is a RAM problem (Transcend 256MB-333+Transcend 512MB-400) so I bought a new one (Transcend 1GB DDR-333 SoDimm). Now I get blue screens in a total irrelevant hardware with RAM, when I plug in a USB hard drive device, I get the blue screen, my computer restarts and then the device works properly. I was able to install Office 2007. Lastly, I was wondering if the BIOS needed to be upgraded but Phoenix support told me, although there is indeed a new update, the BIOS version currently installed is the most updated.

Can anyone help me with that please? I'm confused .

Thank you very much for your time,

Kind Regards,

Kostas

 

First update your X700 128MB to this :
ftp://usftp.clevo.com.tw/ALLBIOS/M400A/BR12207A.zip

If the problem persist then update M400A BIOS to 1.08 :
ftp://usftp.clevo.com.tw/ALLBIOS/M400A/M40A_108.zip

If still nothing, then I'm afraid that there is uncompatibilty between the M400A motherboard and the other M450C components, in that case the only way is to get an M450C motherboard from Clevo. They sell it for $310 shipped (if they still have it in stock) Or buy a new system

 

Hi pkhetan,

Thank you very much for time, really appreciate that.

Never upgrade BIOS again. Although I read the readme file, I'm not sure how to run the whole process. Any tips?


Thanks again,

Kostas

 

You have to boot on DOS and run autoexec.bat for the vBIOS (first link) and run_me.bat for the BIOS (second link)

For more information, read this thread :
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/416916-clevo-bios-thread.html