New BIOSes out for D900F and M980NU (NP9280/NP9850)

Gophn help please
I can't find this bios XP compatible for my D900F (Sager 9280)
thank you very much

 

well is it really recommended to install a non clevo bios for nonsager customers ?

 

if you werent thinking of a clevo bios or a sager one, which one are you thinking of installing?

 

I mean some retailers like Sager may distribute their own bios or a sligthly modifed Sager's bios which is not officially supported by clevo.

 

well technically they are all the same machine using the same components so they will all work

I mean for example i have OCZ's bios on my M17 as it unlocks the multiplyer

 

its still a Beta BIOS.

you have to contact Sager support, and they will email it to you if you really are in need of XP 32-bit.

 

Could someone PM me the process for contacting sager support so when I need it I have it on hand especially for the BIOS updates. thx.

 

[email protected]
or [email protected]

 

I haven't updated my bios yet. I think I'll wait for the next update.

 

Thank you!!!! I wanted to ensure I had the correct address!!!

 

@ gophn

the M17x uses a old Phoenix BIOS and it has unlock FSB and Ram and Multi's

 

thanks for ure response
I have sent 3 mails with the serial numbers of my D900F to send me the 1.00.03i bios version and no response... I dont understand, realy
not find a bios I had not known this before

have a nice day

Jean

 

sager won't answer because they are filtered out

 

Have you tried calling them by phone? Sager is better at talking then they are at typing.

 

hi The Moo and Soviet Sunrise, thanks

I dont calling because my english is..... very crap ! frenchy (froggy)

 

So? The Chinese guys over at Sager can't speak English too well either. I'm Asian. I've heard all the sh*tty Asian accents. Their broken English is still understandable.

I'm pretty sure that it's not hard to say "Hi, my name is jlpfr. This is my D900F serial number. Could you please send me a copy of your latest D900F system BIOS? Here is my email."

I'd rather be patient over the phone with them than wait over an email that you're not going to get back.

 

maybe Soviet... I'll try to do
thanks

 

I'm confused about the relationship between Sager and Clevo as it applies to this issue of BIOS updates. So in an effort to clear the air, this is what I understand;

1) Clevo is the manufacturer of the D900F and the latest BIOS they have made generally available is version 1.00.02. It is unfortunately not available for download at the main Clevo website, but it is at the French Clevo website, (thanks to birndof for pointing it out).

2) Sager is a company that, among other things, takes ODM laptops, like Clevo's D900F, and produces their own laptop model, with their own model numbers and labels. The Sager model 9280 laptop is their release of the Clevo D900F. Sager also does not have any BIOS files that are available for download from their main website.

Sager also has engineers who can modify a system's BIOS from their ODM's release, and in the case of the 9280/(D900F), they've done this with the D900F BIOS. The modification they've done include adding fixes to primarily add support for installing Windows XP. They also included some other fixes as well, (thanks to Gophn for pointing them out). Sager gave this BIOS a version number of 1.00.03i.

If this is the case then I assume that if you purchased a Sager model 9280, (from an authorized Sager reseller), you should be able to email Sager technical support, and have them email back to you, this updated BIOS. HOWEVER, if you purchased the D900F from anyone else, I would assume that Sager would NOT provide this BIOS for your use.

I would think that what needs to happen is that Clevo needs to take these BIOS fixes from the Sager engineers, and incorporate them into an official Clevo D900F BIOS release. This release would then be available either through your Clevo reseller, or maybe also through a Clevo website.

If someone knows the actual relationship between Sager and Clevo as it refers to these kind of BIOS changes, please feel free to enlighten the thread, and also to correct any mistakes I have made in the above post.

 

Clevo.fr hotlinks their BIOS page to Clevo.tw.

 

Sager refuses to mail the betabios to nonsager customers

 

The BIOS for the D900F, (or nVidia VBIOS), is not visible from the main Clevo website downloads section and it appears that this is done on purpose. To test, I tried picking other Clevo models, and seeing all available downloads, and there were no BIOS files visible either on two other models.

Therefore, I don't know why, if I go to the french Clevo website, I can view, and download the BIOS files for the D900F. It's true that the download links provided, are to the main Clevo ftp site in Taiwan, but I still can't see these download links on the main Clevo Taiwan website download section.

BTW, I'm speaking as an average internet user accessing these sites, without any special login accounts.

 

I'm looking at the D900F and M980NU BIOS page on Clevo's main website. It's there. I just downloaded all of them right now.

 

If I go to the main Clevo website;

http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/index.asp

Select E-Services -> Download

http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/e-services/download.asp

Select from the first drop down Model: D900F
Select from the second drop down Driver: ALL

This is what I see;



I don't see the BIOS files there. Are you accessing this same site?

 

PM sent. 10char

 

I can't see it either

 

Ask your vendor for the new BIOS.

 

theriko, the gtx 280 vbios wont work, i boot into dos as you said, and ran update. but it reports cannot access file 62.92.91.00.02

any ideas ?

 

AHHHH
- my comrade flashed his d900f
- the notebook starts
- after the POSt it doesn`t boot
- how can i fix it ( reflash it ) ?

all disk were detected but from my dos-iso-cd / usb drive it doesn´t start---
:cry:
:cry:
:cry:
:cry:

 

If you had raid you need to reenable it ...

Does it go past post ?

What exactly does it say ?

 

Does the new BIOS happen to be the same as I have named 928bv03is.iso? I got mine via email from XoticPC by request but have been worried about installing it myself. On their forums most people calim XP work flawlessly with it and since XoticPC based 900Fs are exactely the same as the Sagers, Id assume there should be no problem... hmmmmmmmm

 

Please could someone pm me a link to the latest d900F bios, 1.00.03i. It should be out of beta now but its still not available for download, so someone at clevo is definately dragging their heels.

Having just bought a D900F and being so disgusted by how vista performs on this machine which by all rights should be a beast, installing Xp is the only option. If you run Vista on this lappy you might as well pick up a cheap netbook and get the same speed!

If someone could send me a link to the latest bios I'd be eternally grateful, its sitting on my desk here ready for a flash.

 

Same here! Thanks in advance if someone can post link for new BIOS!

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=416916

 

I also have this problem with my NP9280... after the flash, it posts fine, but will not boot off of any drives. Unless somebody can tell me what the hotkey is to put this thing into recovery mode, I'm afraid I will have to send mine back in to be repaired. I did try to reset the CMOS by pulling the CMOS battery, but that did not work either. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate them.

Thanks

 

Search for Pheonix recovery method on the internet. You will find how to recover your BIOS, there are some websites on it.

 

I've done that... unfortunately I cannot get any of the recovery mode hotkeys to work (Fn+B, Win+B, Fn+Esc, Win+Esc, Fn+F, Win+F). I'm still waiting to hear back from Sager, but I'm fearing the worst, and that they'll want me to send it in. It's such a strange issue... that is posts and detects all drives just fine, but won't go any further. I need to reflash, but just can't get a drive to boot to do the flash. So, the question is, how do I get the bootblock on this thing to load up? I have the Crisis recovery disk ready to go on the USB floppy, but don't know how to get the computer in that recovery mode.

Thanks

 

Ahhh, I might be able to help you out.

Do the fallowing:

Remove all drives that your system can boot from, including HDD and DVD-rom.
Try to boot without any of them and see what happens.

If the system passes the diagnostics screen, then there might be a solution :

Use a bootable USB flash drive with your BIOS on it so you can flash it again, when the system reaches the diagnostics screen immediately after it detected the USB driver, pull the driver out. Immediately after it passed the diagnostics screen, put the driver back in and it should boot from it. You have to be fast and do this at exactly the right moments, it will probably take a couple of tries to get it right. I had a similar problem with another Clevo, having an USB stick inside would make the system hang at diagnostics... undefinitely, but I wanted to boot from it and this is how I did it.

Also, we really need a reseller or someone that knows his stuff to teach us how to recover after a bad BIOS flash.

 

Blacky,

My system does pass the diagnostics screen, but hangs when it should normally boot from a device. I followed your instructions, but could not get it to boot from the USB drive. I'm letting it detect it, then pull it, then re-inserting after the diags go past (but before the AHCI / Raid initialize) - but I get the same result. I should also note, that CTRL-ALT-DEL restarts the system fine. Also, I have removed all other drives from the system, and the only item I have in the boot list is the USB Key.

 

I am sorry to hear that it did not work. I am afraid I know no other solution.

As I said, we need someone with more expertise on this matter.

 

Well, it's getting sent back. After talking to their tech support, they claim there is no recovery mode. While I find this hard to believe, I have no other choice at this point. Thanks for the help though!

 

That sucks, I was planning to experiment some changes to the BIOS of my notebook, but with no recovery method... no way.

 

Only way to recovery is unsold the Rom chip from MB and reflash again.

 

and how can that be done?