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Hi There, There are currently no easy ways to update a bios through linux at all - including live cd's. Your best bet is to make a bios update USB stick (or floppy depending on the age of the computer) Here's a link to those instructions: http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-boot-usb-stick.htm Alternatively, speaking from my own experience with a similar situation, you can take the hard drive out, use it in place of the usb stick, boot from it, update your bios, and go from there.
Since it cannot boot via a USB stick, you can try making a bootable CD instead. Follow this link to create a bootable DOS CD. Don't forget to include the BIOS files before burning the CD.
The BIOS don't support USB bootable devices even with the LEGACY option ENABLED (it's only for keyboards or mouse), but ther is a way, open the box and you will notice a IDE heather on the board, the problem is it's not a standard 40 pin IDE heather, it's a mini IDE like for laptop HDD's, so what i did is i've purchessed two IDE adaptors from MINI do standard IDE, spliced the power cable for powering the devices, conected a standard flat 40 pin IDE ribbon cable to both adapters and VOILA i have a verry thin silent computer with a 15GB (MASTER) hard drive and a 52X CDROM (SLAVE), obviously with that hardware i can't close the box anny more but i'm running LINUX (DSL) fine.
try to switch off computer and turn it on again, while booting press F10 for Bios settings(applicable only non-branded computer) if your using branded computer like Acer,HP etc try press F2 if not try F10.
OK first off I don't know anything about this device, But I can tell you most OS level passwords I have dealt with are stored in the OS by way of a battery on the main board. If you open the unit and remove the battery and wait about 15 minutes, then reinstall the battery and close everything back up. Then turn it on and see what you get. Has worked for me in the past On laptops. You may have to try and leave the battery out overnight and then try it.
As i answered an other blog, there is no updates what so ever for capio 620 the ownly interesting thing you can do is turn it into a small PC with a hard drive and a CDROM The
BIOS don't support USB bootable devices even with the LEGACY option
ENABLED (it's only for keyboards or mouse), but ther is a way to upgrade to a small LINUX OS, open the
box and you will notice a IDE heather on the board, the problem is it's
not a standard 40 pin IDE heather, it's a mini IDE like for laptop
HDD's, so what i did is i've purchessed two IDE adaptors from MINI do
standard IDE, spliced the power cable for powering the devices, conected
a standard flat 40 pin IDE ribbon cable to both adapters and VOILA i
have a verry thin silent computer
with a 15GB (MASTER) hard drive and a 52X CDROM (SLAVE), obviously with
that hardware i can't close the box anny more but i'm running LINUX
(DSL) fine.
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