Hi all,
I made the mistake of upgrading the bios on this laptop and now the box is dead.
I know the bios has the boot-block recovery built-in and on a boot attempt the box will try to read the floppy disk looking for a valid bios image file to restore. The problem is that Gateway no longer has the bios files in raw for on their site, either www or ftp.
I need someone out there that has a booting machine to come up on a dos disk and run a bios image utility, like the one I use Uniflash, to make a backup of the bios in a file so I can get this box back up again.
Gateway of course wants me to send the box to them so they can charge me $300 to do it for me, they will not give me the files and the only other solution is to replace the motherboard, kinda like thorwing away the car and getting a new one because you have a dead battery.