Bluetooth turns off strangely

The bluetooth icon went all greyed out, and the menu showed that it was off but the option to turn it on (in the bluetooth preferences pane) was greyed out.

The suggestion to run Bluetooth File Exchange which would offer to turn BT on, worked, from the following page:

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/bluetooth-woes-osx-t4102.html

Successful BIOS update to 1.0A

Followed instructions from Cantisque on July 4th 2008. Basically download HP's disk tool and win98 files from files.extremeoverclocking.com, and use the MSI 1.0A utility. But I actually used the Advent 1.0A BIOS file from my previous blog entry, by changing the .BAT file to refer to the Advent BIOS image not the MSI one.

Seems my BIOS 1.08 is the reason my page up and down keys don't work - but now they do go!

Update went smoothly, page up and down now work, thankfully. And Home and End.

Updating to 10.5.6

After much searching I found that the following article seems to be the best update path for 10.5.5->10.5.6.

http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/msiwindowsx86-iso-problems-all-updated-t6441-20.html

The biggest problem is that I would need a USB keyboard.

Eventually I figured I could use the on-screen keyboard (Preferences something), 

but when I did the update I lost the screen again, the old blue screen and mouse curson. It seems that is something a bit unique to my computer, and maybe one or two others. I revived my old advice put on forums.msiwind.net and here to use the terminal to fix the drivers - this time the kexts were already on the HDD though. But of course the keyboard had stopped working in the terminal too.

Eventually I found a USB keyboard and fixed the display drivers as before, then ran the package from the forums to fix the keyboard and trackpad. Weirdly, when I rebooted the Ctrl key was stuck down until I pressed it again - making clicking anything do weird things.

Failed attempt to update BIOS to 1.0A

Using the 1.0A file at:

http://support.thetechguys.com/4211BIOS

I used the technique here, but put on an SD card:

http://forums.msiwind.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5906

1. Prepare pendrive with working BIOS version. You only have to copy file with BIOS on your pendrive and change file extention to "rom". Nothing more. So if you have EN011IMS.109, rename it to EN011IMS.ROM.
2. Insert prepared pendrive in to USB port
3. Remove the battery and disconnect power cord.
4. Press and hold power button
5. Connect power cord.
6. Release power button.
7. Press power button twice
8. Press "Del" to enter BIOS setup
9. Go to "Recovery" tab
10. Select "Proceed with flash update" and press Enter
11. Update process will begin. DO NOT PRESS ANY KEY OR REMOVE POWER CORD!
12. After process is finished, press Enter and turn off your Wind (you can remove your power cord now).
13. Insert battery and connect power cord.
14. Start your Wind, go to BIOS setup and load default settings ("Load setup defaults"). Save and exit BIOS.

Unfortunately the BIOS doesn't seem to have the Recovery tab :-(