I have a Gateway M-1626 laptop and when I restarted it yesterday I got this following boot error message (am including all the text from the screen):
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Phoenix TrustedCore ™ NB
Copyright 1985-2006 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
All Rights Reserved
BIOS version 9D.03
632K System RAM Passed
3966M Extended RAM Passed
1024 KB L2 Cache
System BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
ATAPI CD-ROM: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20F
Fixed Disk 0: WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0
USB 2.0: WD Virtual CD 1110
Mouse initialized
System Configuration Data updated
ERROR
System Configuration Data Read Error
Press
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I have tried to reload Windows from the OS CD (that I got with the laptop) but it fails related to this error (forget the exact message now). And I have tried to recovery everything using the Recovery CD that I made when I first got the laptop but I can’t get the laptop to recognize the Recovery CD either.
I chatted with Gateway customer service and they suggested I re-flash the BIOS (and gave me the file to download to do that) but this requires Windows to run!?!? Supposedly by making the USB drive that the re-flash utility is on the 1st boot drive it would start up and re-flash the BIOS .. but it didn’t .. it said there wasn’t a bootable system on the USB drive (and yes, I extracted the files on to the USB drive first).
Any suggestions on what I can do to get this problem resolved? Thanks.