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A05 bios upgrade on I9300: battery led flashes constantly

post #1 of 5
9/21/06 at 12:51pm
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Hi,

After installing the A05 bios on my I9300 I now have constantly flashing red battery led, even when it's full.

More importantly windoze refuses to start and loops endlessly at the first progress bar stage. Fortunately I use mostly my Linux partition, but still.

Any hint on what could be the problem? Or should I just downgrade to A04?

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post #2 of 5
9/21/06 at 2:01pm
I would first re-download A05 bios and flash via dos (not windows or cmd prompt) and see if that fixes/helps.. if not then a downgrade to A04 would be a option.

Good luck

D.
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post #3 of 5
9/22/06 at 4:03am
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thanks

Thanks for your suggestion, it worked apparently: no more flashing red battery.

Is upgrading bios from windoze (instead of from DOS) considered a bad thing?
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post #4 of 5
9/22/06 at 11:02am
I have always had problems upgrading *any* type of bios from windows (even firmware like for your dvd rom etc..) so I always go thru dos and save myself the hassle.
Plus, when I am upgrading something as important (and finiky) as a bios/firmware.... I like to do it in an environment with as little processes/background programs running as possible to exclude any possible conflics.... so DOS works great.

I am glad you got it to work!!

D.
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post #5 of 5
9/22/06 at 8:57pm
My battery led always flashes when near full (at around 90 percent and charghing) and it still flashes when the battery is full to the max.
Weirdness...
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