BIO-upgrade needed for R50P?

[chazz]

Hi all
two questions
1) I've just recently upgraded my CPU from stock Banias 1.7 to Dothan 765 2ghz (SL7EM)...its running quite nicely without any Bio changes...my current(original) bio is 1RETDHWW (3.13) from 2004 that came with this computer and the latest version is 1RETDRWW(3.23) from 2007...I am wondering if theres any need to upgrade to this BIOs...I've looked over the new changes and the changes over the original bio seems rather small...(Hardwares I can tinker with but bio/softwares I have no idea how to fix...)
is there a need to do bio upgrades?

2)When booting up the computer its showing "PXE-E61-Media Test Failure"...what is this? I looked over this forum and everybody saids differently( HD failure soon, network issues,boot orders ect) I tried all remodies and its still there...I do notice the HD is very clicky and quite noise (Hitachi)...

thanks all.

[ajkula66]

Heck no. Noisy and a step away from death HDD may be, but this message has NOTHING to do with it.

The drive is not formatted to the machine's liking, and that's all.

I've got 4 R50Ps at the moment. All of them were giving that message prior to OS being installed. And the same goes for all the others I've had, which makes a total of more than a dozen.

All the best.