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First post, by lti

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I found a BIOS update for my Gateway Solo 2500, but there is no change log attached to it. The update is version 10.12, and the current BIOS is 10.10.05. I'm wondering if the update is worth installing because the current BIOS has a 32GB hard drive capacity limit (not that I will ever use that much storage on it, but it will improve compatibility with currently available IDE storage options). Is there a change log available? If not, this thing works well enough that I don't want to try installing the update and seeing what happens.

Reply 1 of 3, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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lti wrote on 2024-09-02, 04:47:

I found a BIOS update for my Gateway Solo 2500, but there is no change log attached to it. The update is version 10.12, and the current BIOS is 10.10.05. I'm wondering if the update is worth installing because the current BIOS has a 32GB hard drive capacity limit (not that I will ever use that much storage on it, but it will improve compatibility with currently available IDE storage options). Is there a change log available? If not, this thing works well enough that I don't want to try installing the update and seeing what happens.

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Reply 2 of 3, by lti

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Thanks for that. Where did you find it?

Based on that, I don't see a reason to update. I don't have any of the problems listed there. My only BIOS problem is the 32GB HDD limit.

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lti wrote on 2024-09-02, 13:54:

Thanks for that. Where did you find it?

Based on that, I don't see a reason to update. I don't have any of the problems listed there. My only BIOS problem is the 32GB HDD limit.

It came as part of the 1012 BIOS update package from a Gateway archive site (in this case Swedish) on Wayback...not all Gateway sites packaged download contents the same, and in this case it just happened to have the info you were looking for.