Bios Update?

[Grant]

I'm working on this computer, it's a HP P3 500MHZ. I went to try and load XP pro first, (i've had it on MUCH slower pc's) and when that wouldn't work, I tried W2KPRO. I get to the end of the 4 boot up disks, and it says that the 'bios needs to be updated' and to go to www.biosupgrade, or something like that. But that's expensive. It says you can continue with setup and go back to this later, but i'm sure not seeing how so far... Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!

Grant

[TXstangnut]

have you tried going to hp's website to see if the have the latest bios upgrade?

[TXstangnut]

ps
still got your boat for sale?

[Grant]

Originally posted by 01whitegt
ps
still got your boat for sale?

Yes and no, we've got it running perfectly, since spring/summer is coming up, we're going to go ahead and keep it, my dad has turned down several offers. We'll be painting it here shortly. Boat and trailer.

How've you been?

Grant

[TXstangnut]

just workin tryin not to let the man keep me down:)

[DarkWolf]

Speaking of XP running on much slower systems. I just had it on an HP Pavilion N3402 Laptop: Mobile Celeron 500, 64MB PC100. Ran like a charm. 2% average cpu usage, and 53 Megs of ram on startup. Had it going for a few hours loading programs, and testing things out, when I had to wipe the drive, and install 98. One of the programs (pretty much the only program that has to work) won't work on XP :( And now I'm having a bitch of a time trying to find the drivers for this thing, since 98 didn't detect jack shit.

[TXstangnut]

Darkwolf,
did you try the compatability wizard?

[DarkWolf]

Originally posted by 01whitegt
Darkwolf,
did you try the compatability wizard?

Yeah, still got nothing.

Really didn't surprise me too much though. Unfortunately this program is the program Snap-On dealers have to use to manage customers, inventory, contracts, etc... It started out as a DOS program, and it was good, fast, and worked flawlessly. They decided to make it a Windows program, and since then it's been plagued with problems, and is slower than snail shit. I'd hoped it would work on XP, at the very least, in Windows 95 or 98 compatability :(

It would pop up with a dll error, couldn't find an entry point in a certain key in one of it's own dll's :rolleyes:

[TXstangnut]

Darkwolf,
what about running the dos version in compatability mode. There is bound to be a way to make it work.

[DarkWolf]

Well, the DOS version may work, but they ended development on the DOS version at version 3 something. They're now on version 6.01 of this software. The DOS version uses X-Modem protocals to connect, and the Windows version uses DUN and TCP/IP, so the DOS version won't connect to the current servers (we'd tried that around version 5, because the Windows version was just going downhill, and it wouldn't make a connection). And also, the new product lists, customer lists, and inventories, etc are kept in a SQL database, but in version 3, they had a custom database (not sure if it was developed inhouse, or if it was liscensed from elsewhere), so the data formats aren't compatible either.

Believe me, if he could still use the DOS version, he would :D He hates the Windows version.