-This firmware has been installed and being shipped with systems since the 15th of this month (April).
-This firmware as of 4-21-04 1.00.F2 is the same version though named different from the beta ones released.
-The way this firmware works is you hit the "Fn" and "F10" keys to hear the beeps which puts the fans in one of two modes. One beep means full auto mode, two beeps means wide open. I personally run wide open at all ties, the notebook stays very cool to the touch, but I don't mind the noise and consider it low compared to many of the dekstop systems I and others around me have used.
*disclaimer* You should always contact Sager to verify our version listed is the latest.
This is ONLY for the 8790 systems. All you have to do is download the attachment at the bottom of this post which is a .zip file titled 879H8.zip
To be able to update, you need an external USB floppy drive.
1) Plug the USB floppy drive into your USB port with Windows running and booted up. If the systems does not recognize the floppy drive, you may need to install the drivers that came with that drive.
2) Insert a floppy disk that is NOT write protected, open up "My Computer" and right click on your A: drive and select "Format", when the options pop up, select "Create MS Startup Disk". This will format the disk and load the needed boot files. Once that is done, unzip the file you downloaded (879H8.zip) and put the files on the A: drive with the files already there from creating the startup disk.
3) Reboot to the floppy disk where you will get an A prompt and just type "dir" to get the list of files on that disk. You will see the file you put on ending in .bat (879H8F2.bat). Just type that file name and it will auto run the update. When it's finished you will need to reboot.
If your system doesn't boot to the floppy drive, you will need to jump into the bios and change the order of bootable devices.
-This firmware as of 4-21-04 1.00.F2 is the same version though named different from the beta ones released.
-The way this firmware works is you hit the "Fn" and "F10" keys to hear the beeps which puts the fans in one of two modes. One beep means full auto mode, two beeps means wide open. I personally run wide open at all ties, the notebook stays very cool to the touch, but I don't mind the noise and consider it low compared to many of the dekstop systems I and others around me have used.
*disclaimer* You should always contact Sager to verify our version listed is the latest.
This is ONLY for the 8790 systems. All you have to do is download the attachment at the bottom of this post which is a .zip file titled 879H8.zip
To be able to update, you need an external USB floppy drive.
1) Plug the USB floppy drive into your USB port with Windows running and booted up. If the systems does not recognize the floppy drive, you may need to install the drivers that came with that drive.
2) Insert a floppy disk that is NOT write protected, open up "My Computer" and right click on your A: drive and select "Format", when the options pop up, select "Create MS Startup Disk". This will format the disk and load the needed boot files. Once that is done, unzip the file you downloaded (879H8.zip) and put the files on the A: drive with the files already there from creating the startup disk.
3) Reboot to the floppy disk where you will get an A prompt and just type "dir" to get the list of files on that disk. You will see the file you put on ending in .bat (879H8F2.bat). Just type that file name and it will auto run the update. When it's finished you will need to reboot.
If your system doesn't boot to the floppy drive, you will need to jump into the bios and change the order of bootable devices.
