Laptop BIOS problem

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December 27th, 2004, 03:44 PM
unctarheels18

Laptop BIOS problem

I have a fairly old laptop along with my desktop that I am on right now, and I all of a sudden started having BIOS problems with it. It is a Dell Inspiron 3800, Pentium 3 , with windows 2000 on it. Like I said, pretty old. Anyway all of a sudden the other day upon booting it up, I recieved the following blue screen error message:
*** STOP: 0x000000A5 (0x00000011,0x00000007,0xF5C68800,0x100000D)
The ACPI BIOS in this system is not fully compliant with the ACPI specification. Please read the README.TXT for possible workarounds. You can also contact your system's manufacturer for an updated BIOS, or visit http://www.hardware-update.com to see if a new BIOS is available.

http://support.dell.com/support/down...leaseid=R57532
The above link is the updated BIOS, but the problem is, my laptop does not have a floppy drive, and I cant boot it up without it crashing. Will I have to buy an external floppy to attach and load the BIOS, or is there a way you can load them from a CD? (it has a CD-ROM drive).
Any ideas?
December 27th, 2004, 04:07 PM
hudsonsmith

I think you've been hijacked. I've never seen a bsod that refers to a 3rd-party web site. Also, if windows installed properly and has been working, the ACPI status of your bios could not have changed.

Can you boot to safe mode? How about a repair install w/ the w2k cd?
December 27th, 2004, 06:17 PM
unctarheels18

Quote:

Originally Posted by hudsonsmith

I think you've been hijacked. I've never seen a bsod that refers to a 3rd-party web site. Also, if windows installed properly and has been working, the ACPI status of your bios could not have changed.

Can you boot to safe mode? How about a repair install w/ the w2k cd?

Thats what I first thought, but like I said its really old, and misplaced since recently (I found it in my attic) and havent been able to find my old windows discs, otherwise I would have tried that.