On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 15:49, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Hello, sorry for the extremely off-topic, but a bios update for my > > laptop is badly needed... > > [...] > > I'm looking for a (maibe native) japanese speaking guy who can briefly > > help in making me understand how to udate the bios of the beast. > > Sony support in italy carries 20EUR to talk to an autoresponder... > > What is written after the /!\ is that you need a PCGA-UFD5 floppy drive to be > able to upgrade your BIOS.
フロッピーヂィスクドライブ... I see... (I still need big help with japanese, but I learn quickly) ouch! this is a bad joke from sony.... > On the other hand, if I correctly understand all it is about (I can't read > all > kanjis), you probably don't really need this update. The problem I'm having from a couple of weeks is that the CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo isn't recognized at boot by the bios (it says I have no device on ide2). I need to shutdown, remove and insert the CD-RW/DVD from the bay and it works again like a charm. I've been told it could be an electric contact problem since it's a removable device, I could try to clean all pins... > BTW, IIRC (I'm not at home at the moment, but will check then), I have the > same Vaio model, never upgraded it, and had no problem with it... me too, until some days ago... Since I found this bios upgrade and CD-RW/DVD-ROM is mentioned in the third paragraph (the second dotted list) I really hoped this could solve my problems without having to struggle with sony support. Thanks a lot for your help :) -- mattia :wq!
