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I guess you are right about the idiots out there, it is a pity though as some manufacturers are not very forthcoming when it comes to bios updates, even when they have them, sony spring to mind. it would be good to have a collection of bios files to draw upon at need, even if it was just all the original bios files to use for recovery. oh well

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(3 replies, posted in Other)

Hi I have been driving myself mad trying to find a bios for a sony laptop and I wondered if there was a driverpack type setup to deal with bioses
has anyone thought of building one or is there one already?
Cheers
Andy

did you ever resolve this?

the company i work for has several restore images that we use for different PCs that we support, but with repairs and upgrades these images are often unusable as the drivers are incorrect or the hardware is completly diferent to what it is supposed to be.
A universal image with driverpacks rolled in would be perfect and would save me hours.

i have tried to create one using acronis universal restore and driverpacks without much success, modems, graphics and networks dont seem to install well although chipsets seem to be ok.

also i am struggling to get a solution to having the new restored system ask for its windows key. i can get an image to restore but only with a preinstalled key that then needs to be changed to the licenced one for that machine.

Any thoughts, ideas, help?

Thanks

Andy

PS not trying to hijack the thread just trying not to reinvent the wheel smile