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Date Posted: 14:48:22 12/01/02 Sun
Author: andrea
Subject: Re: Olivetti Echos P133s

>Hello Michai,
>
>the usual solution would certainly be a BIOS update.
>The trouble is that Olivetti Computers gave up some
>years ago so that BIOS are no longer maintained and
>their support servers no longer available. Searching
>desperately for another source for a new BIOS for a
>colleagues' Olivetti, I stumbled over your posting and
>I found a website where some Olivetti BIOS are still
>available:
>http://www.ics-finmek.com/ihdesk/
>*May be* you find a newer BIOS for your P133S there
>(compare the version on the website with the version
>displayed while the Power On Self Test) and *may be*
>it is recent enough to support larger hard disks.
>Please observe that Olivetti recommends to update the
>"Keyboard BIOS" as well. Observe the BIOS update
>instructions very strictly, since, if the BIOS flash
>fails, your notebook will be absolutely *dead* - so,
>no warranty for this. In any case, if the flash offers
>a backup of the old BIOS, use this option in case that
>the new BIOS should cause trouble (you could go back
>to the old BIOS by flashing the old BIOS image).
>
>Another solution could be the use of a hard disk
>driver as Ontrack Disk Manager. I don't know whether
>these drivers are still maintained, since the need for
>such drivers diminished with the availability of new,
>more flexible, FLASH-updateable BIOS for most
>computers. And it is commercial software (i.e. you
>must buy it). Sometimes it comes/came bundled with new
>hard drives in a crippled version which supported only
>drives of that specific manufacturer. A disadvantage
>is that you *must* always boot from the hard disk at
>first to load the modified boot sector with the
>driver, or from a special boot diskette with the
>driver; otherwise the hard disk can be unaccessible or
>you could even destroy data by writing to the disk
>without the driver... :-(
>
>You might try your luck and maybe find more actual
>BIOS by looking with a search engine with search terms
>like
>+"Olivetti" +"Echos" +"BIOS"
>; this is the way I found the site mentioned above.
>
>Success!-
> Daniel

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