m6810/11 BIOS - Page 2

This is update was just so you can have powernow working correctly?

emachines 6809 owners, should update m6809 bios or m6811? i am asking this since i believe there is no difference between both machines except the cpu, and hence the bios of 11 is newer so there might be some new/tiny improvements

couldnt wait, so i flashed my bios with the one of 6811 (following the instructions of (vip2........thanks man).


when shuting down the windows, the screen freezed on the shuting down windows and i waited for 1-2 minutes with no hope so i had to turn it off from the main power, then turned it on and it worked fine and now the bios version is 0f07.p00 and amd power now is working now after installing it


i wanna post this fix for the power now arround, but my question is, does the bios update for the 6809 that is posted on the same site fixs the power now issue? or just the bios of 11 does?

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I havent tested those last two BIOSes yet. So, I'm not sure if they fix/break anything.

VIP and Thunder, thanks for the great info and sharing the bioses, i flashed my 6805 with the 09 bios first and now wit the 11 bios, and its working perfect, it boots more faster and i feel it a little bit more "solid", thanks for sharing it. The powernow still works after the flash.

I now just want to know if anyone has the newest drivers for the Wireless Card, the ones that come with the 6811.

Thanks.

I have them. Send me your e-mail and I will send the Broadcom drivers to you. They are about 4.5 MB, so I hope you habe broadband!

You can use any wireless card drivers that are for a broadcom chip set.
I use the HP broadcom drivers on my M6809, and they work alot better then the ones that came with the laptop.

xcomm99: Define "better", please

Does any of these fix the usb disconnect problem???

Well by better this is what i mean.

I had a WAP11 befor i had got the M6809, and it would not even connect to it wirelessly.
Then i decided to upgrade to a 802.11G, and sence i work for dlink now i go a DWL-2100AP. After about 1 hour of changing some settings i got the card to connect.
Then enabled WEP 64bit, and the card of course disconnected. But i was not able to reconnect at all even with the key. I created a profile for the wireless network, and rebooted the computer. Then it connected, and worked fine. So then I step it up a bit, and turn on WPA. Then it was disconnected, and i could not reconnect at all to the AP. I created a profile with the WPA pass prase, and rebooted the computer. When the computer i was connected, and had a IP address and so was online with WEP.
Then about a hour later it disconnects. Most likly from interferance, but the card would not connect back to the network. Rebooted the computer, and it was connected back, and online fine. The card countiued to do that so i disabled WPA, and it still did it. Went back to the WAP11, and it connected now with the profile for the network. The same thing contiued to happen disconnects all the time.
Went looking for a base Broadcom driver, and no luck at there site. Then came across HP/compaq's site when looking at there computers, and noticed they had broadcom cards. Went to the support section, and downloaded the driver. Uninstalled the old driver, and installed the compaq driver. Tried connecting wirelessly, and i could do it with out a reboot fine. The card has not disconnected but twice, and it will reconnect.
When i frist had this problem i reinstalled the driver from the emachines disk for the card, and it did not help at all. I never tried the driver in XP home when i got the laptop reinstalled to XP pro. That could have been my problem what i dont care it works now.

I found this post on another AMD forum:

"Well after hearing back from Arima's technical support, I was told I had to contact eMachines directly for the newest Bios, since I was told that if I upgraded with a "Generic/Arima" Bios, it wouldn't boot the system, because of the factory HDD image that is used to install the programs. As asinine as that sounded, I emailed back, and explained I'd already formatted my hard drive and have installed Windows XP Professional, so that wouldn't be a problem on my end. So at this point in time, I'm awaiting an answer back from Arima again.


BUT.... I decided to call eMachines (just hung up the phone actually), and have confirmed 2 more product voiding points, where they won't support your laptop.
1.) Flashing the Bios (I was told and I quote, "that flashing the bios can damage the laptop, and the only updates they have, are ones they have, and they don't provide them." When I asked if I could send my laptop in for them to flash, I was told, "No".) I explained that the bios updates are made by system manufacturers, and are for the purpose of fixing known problems/limitations, and for future software/hardware support. I also explained that there is a known issue with CPU and XP that affects the speed when running on batteries, and the new update is suppose to address that issue. Again, I was told "sorry, we don't support it, it'll damage the machine" (friggin' morons!)

2.) Changing your OS from the factory installed, rather it's to Windows XP Pro, ME, 98, etc... since it wasn't the OS provided and installed.


"So, it looks like the only bios updates we'll get is each time they release a new laptop built on the same system specs.

PS: The only plus side, is as of about 2 weeks ago, I'm told that now under the manufacturers warranty, that the "cracked hinge" problem is covered, and no longer considered a "cosmetic defect"."


Kinda messed up customer support?! I would like to update the BIOS... but I'm afraid to botch it.

Now that i read over it i had some spelling errors hope you can under stand it.

I have upgraded to the M6811 bios. I have gotten the powernow trick to work, so my laptop will actually speed up when it needs to. The restore dvd works fine for me. I have restored Windows XP once since updating the bios. I'm happy with the update to the bios. So far I see no bad results.

Jordan