[ubuntu-us-mi] Hello World

[Jeff Hanson]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Rebecca Herber <ramengirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Its an old HP N5470 from 2000, at least I think that's when my friend
> originally purchased it. When he gave it to me last fall, it
> overheated constantly, the CDRW/DVD-rom drive worked when it felt like
> it, and the battery only held a charge for 10 minutes. I've managed to
> clean it out which was full of cat hair, nicotine, and 2 nicely
> crisped roaches, find a new recordable media drive for it, and get a
> new battery. The BIOS doesn't like the new CDRW/DVD-rom combo drive
> and I can't boot from it on startup, I think it might be the eprom
> security but I'm done putting anymore money into it. I've managed to
> get around it by using the Smart Boot Manager on a floppy disk which
> sees the drive with no problem; it also is recognized by the OS with
> no problem.

Looks like there is a BIOS update (v1.08) available.  Is that the
version you're using?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=61329