Bios changed? Lenovo thinks its a Gateway!

[johnf93]

Please help,

My hard drive in my x61s died and I can find my backup media. I took a hard drive from a spare Gateway laptop (running vistsa) and installed it in my x61s. I set windows to the original factory instalation setting, while it was in my lenovo. It boots up fine, but now my computer thinks its a Gateway! Do I have to cnange the Bios so it boots as a Lenovo, or what? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Btw, there isn't an optical drive in the X61s.

Thanks a million!

John 

[topmahof Community Moderator]

johnf93,

I'm surprised that it booted up at all seeing as how the hardware is so different.  It sounds like when you set it to factory settings, the os used the factory settings for the Gateway.  It's not going to boot up as a Lenovo unless you used the Lenovo restore discs.  You have an os in there that was installed in a Gateway.  So, you got Gateway stuff.  

That's okay, but  you're probably going to have to re-activate Vista soon.  I would probably just go through the hardware and get rid of the Gateway stuff.  Then download and install Thinkvantage System Update and update your drivers.  

In control panel, do you have any devices that aren't installed or have yellow tags on them?  System update should find them and give you drivers for them.

Again, I'm real surprised it booted up at all. Oh yeh, the bios doesn't have anything to do with it.

Dave

[ColonelONeill]

I'd definitely go and reinstall the OS on it. (Preferably XP or 7, and not Vista )

[johnf93]

Thanks for the info!

Just curious, Is there anyway to have it boot up as a Lenovo, without using the restore disks? Thanks again for the quick responses.

John

[ColonelONeill · Accepted solution]

You could try to uninstall all of the Gateway related tools, then run ThinkVantage System Update on it.

There may be some minor cosmetic alterations Gateway made to the stock OS to make it "Gateway", but shouldn't pose an issue.

[johnf93]

THANKS!!!