Posts by toronto-m6805

Update: My laptop is back from the dead - new bios chip from Badflash.com and I am now running the latest official bios from the emachines website. Since Monday afternoon when I got the chip in the mail and installed it, I have not had...

Well my laptop lives again thanks to Jack at www.badflash.com. For $24.99 US ($31.26 CDN) and a 1 week wait I am happily writing this email from my M6805 which now has the latest BIOS 0F08P00 bios from the emachines website. Many...

Well, I had the same problem and it was getting worse. Fan coming on full and shutting down when cold either immeadiately after pressing the power button or after a few minutes of running. Battery and AC, Battery only, AC only - did...

Is it necessary to clear the CMOS before powering back up the laptop after installing the new chip. The info on badflash.com says you must, but I can't see the CMOS battery as being easily accessable on this laptop. It is under approx....

Thats what I was hoping to hear. I already have the chip out, but now I was doubting if it was actually the motherboard bios or something else. Trying to find a place in Toronto that can read first then write to these chips. They use...

Hi there, A newbie here, but have been looking at this forum for a while. Have refurbished M6805 from Tigerdirect.ca. Worked great for about 6 months. Was having problems with overheat shutdown on cold startup. Fan comes on...