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Kevin
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| I have a sony vaio pcv-rs530g computer and I recently updated the bios. After trying to use system recovery to restore my computer to its orignal state, I get a message saying file SETUPREG.HIV could not be loaded. After inserting my recovery cd, the message is gone, but the computer says the model is not correct. Is there a way to reset my bios?
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edwin
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:45 pm
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the recovery cd does not see this as a sony machine. where did you get the bios update from?
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:23 am
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| Well, I got the update from the sony website. however, windows crashed during the update so i used the amiboot.rom thing. I got the file via email from someone here. http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/topic9039.html. I talked to sony and they said the recovery cd needs to match the bios. I also can't boot into windows because whenever i turn on the computer, it tries to do a system recovery. there's always the error saying SETUPREG.HIV could not be loaded. does anyone know how i can boot to windows?
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edwin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:42 am
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| Quote: | File setupreg.hiv could not be loaded.
The error code is ????? |
What is the error message number? It is complaining about missing setup files for some reason, I'm trying to find out if that is because you removed the recovery partition or because the recovery CD is faulty.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:16 pm
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| The error code is 4.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:44 am
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| please help! my computer tries to system recovery whenever i turn on the computer! how do i boot to windows?
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edwin
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this means it can't find the CD. I think the idea is to put in the recovery CD but tell the system to boot from harddisk. That might work.
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Kevin
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:13 pm
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| sorry, but your idea didn't work. If I put the cd in the hard drive, the error code is gone, which makes sense. However, no matter where I boot from, the computer insists to do a system recovery. It always says the model is not correct, but that's because i updated the bios. Does anyone have an updated system recovery iso image for sony pcv-rs530g? or knows where I can get one? Or any other solutions to boot to windows?
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edwin
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:46 am
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Yep. I'm not sure if it's the bios string that has gone haywire or the recovery disk that is for the wrong model, the end result is no match and no restore...
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Kevin
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:07 pm
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| So the only way is to take it to sony? I can't restore my old bios?
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Kevin
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| Uh oh, I don't have my old bios file, only my new one. Can anyone help me find the original BIOS for a Sony PCV-RS530G computer? I also have 2 recovery disks, which might contain the bios somewhere in there. I could upload an ISO image of them somewhere, if some one would be willing to look at them, sorry I can't do it myself, I'm not good with computers. On a side note, do you know how to restore my old bios? I thought I could curropt my bios and then do the amiboot.rom trick. Only, how do I curropt my bios....
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Kevin
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:51 am
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| no, they wouldn't give it to me
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