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Help: Edit Phoenix Bios for Gateway ML3109

post #1 of 8
2/13/08 at 1:16pm
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I am trying to change the SATA settings on my harddrive to AHCI. In most computers this is no problem: simply go into the bios page at startup and alter the drive’s settings. However, on lower-end laptops, such as the Gateway ML3109, their BIOS pages frequently do not allow, or even display, an option to tweak this setting.

So. What to do? The ML3109 has a Phoenix BIOS and I downloaded the Phoenix Bios Editor 4.2, which allows, I think, editing the BIOS page to make certain functions like modifying the SATA mode appear as an option.

My problem now is that I don’t know where my BIOS file is stored on my computer. I need to find it so I can edit it and add the SATA mode option. Does anyone have any information about this? Thank you.

By the way, I am running Vista, and am familiar with the instructions for enabling the SATA drivers in that OS provided by Microsoft, which everyone anyone attempting this procedure should read.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
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post #2 of 8
2/14/08 at 6:08pm
how about just try to back up the bios, performing a fake bios update with the option to back up previous version. one wuld think that u can get the file that way and re.install it

cheers ...
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post #3 of 8
2/14/08 at 6:14pm
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Thanks for the reply. But can you explain that procedure in greater detail?
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post #4 of 8
2/14/08 at 6:53pm
i do not know about what more detail i can give:
. do bios update
. chose option to backup previous bios version
. now u have the old version.
. edit it like u wanted to
. re.install/re.update the bios with ur "edited" version

or the simplest way is to download the current bios of ur model, then edit it

cheers ...
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post #5 of 8
2/14/08 at 7:46pm
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Again, thanks. I guess all I need to know is where to find the bios version, apart from downloading it from th manufacturer. I mean is it somewhere in system32 folder for instance? Somewhere else? I'm running Vista 32 bit.
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post #6 of 8
2/14/08 at 9:51pm
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Originally Posted by vitasg View Post
Again, thanks. I guess all I need to know is where to find the bios version, apart from downloading it from th manufacturer. I mean is it somewhere in system32 folder for instance? Somewhere else? I'm running Vista 32 bit.
I'm not sure where the BIOS is, I think it's located on a BIOS CHIP on the motherboard somewhere, but, from the looks of the Gateway Drivers Website, it appears you don't have a BIOS update posted for your ML3109

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/...14550Rnv.shtml
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post #7 of 8
2/15/08 at 11:54am
unless your ML3109 is quite different from mine & the specs on Gateway Website, it has pata HD drive. While the chipset can support SATA, there are no connectors on the MB for SATA

This is why there is no BIOS SETUP option to modify SATA mode.

good luck.
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post #8 of 8
2/15/08 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by syrtus View Post
unless your ML3109 is quite different from mine & the specs on Gateway Website, it has pata HD drive. While the chipset can support SATA, there are no connectors on the MB for SATA

This is why there is no BIOS SETUP option to modify SATA mode.

good luck.
@syrtus: um . . . oops. You're right. It's not a SATA drive at all. Thank you. I feel stupid. I guess I just assumed . . . well. Anyway, not having SATA may raise other issues, but at least I won't be going down the dead end of editing the bios to enable/disable something which can't be done at all.

Cheers.
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