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Dell Insprion 600m and Lititude D600

post #1 of 7
4/12/07 at 10:30pm
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i bought a replace board off ebay for my i600m but it turn out it is lD600, even tho they are same board, but it bugs me ,is there a way allow me to flash the bios to D600 motherboard with i600m bios
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post #2 of 7
4/13/07 at 2:36am
Why bother? There is no need to as the d600 board supports all of the hardware you are using from the 600m, why risk screwing it up.

Stu
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post #3 of 7
4/14/07 at 10:53am
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good point....it irretate me when it boot up says l600D...hhehe
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post #4 of 7
4/14/07 at 5:18pm
I'd be happy, you got a latitude motherboard for an inspiron laptop.

It's like getting a Mercedes engine replacement for your kia.
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post #5 of 7
4/19/07 at 1:27pm
Not really Adinu, many Inspiron 600m's shipped with the EXACT same board that D600's shipped with. One is neither better, nor worse than the other. The only real difference is the presence of LPT and COM ports (if the laptop didn't have these before) and Gigabit Ethernet.

If you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to change your BIOS, you can download the latest BIOS update for your system, boot to DOS mode via CD or floppy and run the i600mA##.exe with the /jabil or /forceit switch (i can't remember which one works) That'll have you back to running an Inspiron BIOS.

As Stu said previously though, there's no good reason for you to do this. In fact, you can use Latitude Docks with your Laptop now (which cost much less than Inspiron ones).
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post #6 of 7
4/20/07 at 1:20am
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Not really Adinu, many Inspiron 600m's shipped with the EXACT same board that D600's shipped with.
Cool, so what exactly is the difference between the Latitude and Inspiron lines then? Just the chassis and the name?
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post #7 of 7
4/20/07 at 4:47am
Some 600ms shipped with motherboards that lacked the COM and LPT ports. They also lacked the Broadcom Gigabit ethernet chip. Later production 600m's shipped with boards that were identical to those in a Latitude D600. (My sister has one that she purchased in the last few months you could buy a 600m). Otherwise the Latitude D600 and Inspiron 600m share a good portion of parts with one another. This used to be normal for Dell (My i8200 is identical to a C840 Latitude), but more recently (starting with the Inspiron 9200) Inspirons and Latitudes no longer share any commonality between each other.

Mind you, those older Inspirons were locked in their BIOS from using a Latitude Docking station, you had to flash them to a Latitude BIOS to get them to accept the dock.
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