Posts by sboub

Yes, I thought that Sager is a good company with reliable products. bad luck I guess. Or ... I noticed that the Raid Controler is very close to the video card; aren't the new 9880 working with the bugged nvidia drivers (video card...

Quote: Originally Posted by sharpshot Hi this is one of these instances where flashing your bios might actually help. I also thought so ... unfortunately, I flashed the bios (using phlash16 and the latest...

I don't think so. One very important info, is that the promise bios message doesn't appear before I get the "operating system not found". I really think the controler itself is down.

Hey Mike, Nope. I tried everything, including removing the CMOS Battery to reset it. THe promise controler seems plain dead to me, don't know how it's possible though, as I can't make it work either in raid or ata mode. I live in...

Nope. I tried to boot from windows xp install cd, from a floppy disk, but I cannot get into bios.

I'd like to try that. But how do you disable the card reader without acessing the bios setup ?

I think I tried everything. The Raid Controler seems dead. I have to send the laptop back from france

Hello, Indeed, but in our case, the raid bios message doesn't even appear, which prevents any attempt to access the raid bios configuration.

Isn't the warranty void if I open the laptop ?

I've received my 9880 a week ago, and so far it has just been great. Yesterday, I rebooted and the screen refused to turn on. I was worried, so I switched the laptop off and emailed the tech support about the problem. After being...