geishaslave

Hi Potted Meat.

Following is a procedure I used to successfully recover the BIOS on another Gateway laptop.

Assuming you can get access to another computer, please try the following to rescue the BIOS for your NX570X:

- Download the BIOS file from Gateway.com. It is an SEA called 7712.exe, about 3MB in size.

- Extract the contents of 7712.exe.

- Create an ASCII text file and save it as autoexec.bat. Copy the following command line into the .bat file then save and close it:

a:\7712.EXE 7712.bin

- Create a bootable floppy disk. From Windows 2000 or XP, use Windows Explorer, right click on the A: drive, left click on format then select create a MS DOS boot floppy.

- Copy the autoexec.bat file made above to the boot floppy. Overwrite the existing autoexec.bat file on the floppy if prompted.

- Burn a bootable CD. Use the boot floppy with the autoexec.bat file as the source for the boot image. Include the following files from extracted directory 7712 in the compilation:

7712.bin (BIOS for the Nx570X)
7712.exe (DOS flash util)

- Open the optical drive built into the NX570X.

- Insert the boot CD.

- Close the drive tray.

- Plug in the power adapter for the Gateway laptop.

- Power up the Gateway notebook.

- Allow a few minutes for the computer to flash the BIOS.

- Once complete, remove the CD then re-start.

Again, the above worked for another Gateway that had the wrong BIOS flashed to it.

Upon request I can provide you with a .iso to burn the bootable CD, including the correct BIOS file and the flash util.

OK please try then report back.