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    SubjectRe: Sony Vaio Laptop problems
    On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:30:22PM +0200, Stephan Maciej wrote:

    > > 1) Update the BIOS, my laptop shipped with an old version and a BIOS
    > > update fixed some keyboard related problems. (you need to boot into
    > > windows for this)
    >
    > Can I do this with a DOS bootdisk? I remember that most of the Flash updates
    > require you to startup the computer in a real DOS environment, at least those
    > I have seen for my ASUS P5A and A7V boards.

    Unfortunatelly (at least for the C1VM windows XP bios) it
    requires windows installed, so it could launch a fancy graphical
    installer, which will test if your laptop is the correct version and
    if it is, it will create the dos boot disk.

    Of course it didn't work for me (since I have a C1VE, which is the
    european version of the C1VM, and the bios wasn't "certified" for
    my version). But I was able to workaround by manually looking at
    the temporary files (windows\temp directory) while the fancy setup
    utility was running....

    Just in case it's useful...

    > > 2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
    >
    > I'll try. Is anyone interested in getting positive feedback? You?

    Probably the acpi mailing list.

    Stelian.
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