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A31P white listed bios?

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A31P white listed bios?

#1 Post by T3f4l » Tue May 16, 2017 12:21 pm

Hi all

I've recently rebuilt an old A31p because I needed an xp laptop with a DVD drive and a floppy drive, it currently has an ibm wifi card in that isn't great, I'd like to fit a better card but the ones I've tried give me the 1802 error, so is there a bios out there somewhere than can get around this?

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Jason
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Re: A31P white listed bios?

#2 Post by RealBlackStuff » Tue May 16, 2017 1:04 pm

You can use the DOS no-1802 utility as described here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... twork_card
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Re: A31P white listed bios?

#3 Post by T3f4l » Tue May 16, 2017 2:56 pm

Brilliant, that worked perfectly now have an Intel 2195 installed
X220, 2.8 i7, 16gb 1866mhz, 512gb Samsung msata boot and 480gb Sandisk ssd storage
T22, 1ghz PIII, 512mb PC100 Ram, 128gb ssd boot and 320gb Weston Digital Storage
T21, ???ghz PIII, ???mb PC100 Ram, Its a parts donor that may see life again!

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