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M90 Bios A07 Update Error - Any help how I can fix this?

post #1 of 8
8/8/07 at 1:13am
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Hi All,

yesterday morning I tried to install the latest Bios Rev A07 for my Dell M90, equipped with Vista Ultimate.

The last Bios Updates worked flawless and without any issues.

When I started the Update the first time, the whole system slowed down and stopped with this error warning. Rebooting (as suggested in the window) doesn´t help, Update always returns with the same error.

I assume that Bios already wrote something to the harddisc, but I was not able to locate the files, so that I can delete them and start the process again.

I attached a screenshot of the error message.

Any help would be great! TIA, Michael
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post #2 of 8
8/8/07 at 1:59am
I just updated to test it, and everything was smooth. You may want to call Dell. I'm not sure if you can downgrade.
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post #3 of 8
8/8/07 at 11:16am
what does the update do? Given that we have one report of a problem and one of no problem, i'd rather waqit to update unless it does something really useful.
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post #4 of 8
8/8/07 at 11:46am
I would re-download the bios update and re-flash in DOS and see if that clears up your problem.

If not, you can download and re-flash the previous bios from dell's ftp site.

Either way, be sure to flash your bios under DOS ( NOT DOS PRoMPT!!)
ie... use a DOS boot disk.

Good Luck

D.
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post #5 of 8
8/8/07 at 12:45pm
It wasn't even a update that was worth do get. It was a fix for wireless card or something which I don't even use. I just updated to see if there was something wrong with it & tell other's it worked on mine.
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post #6 of 8
8/11/07 at 2:35am
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ok guys, thanks for your comments. As I do not own a floppy disc drive, I need to go for the bootable CD version and upgrade BIOS from DOS.

As this is not that easy and fast as to do it via GUI, I´ll do that the following days. Anyway, I noticed in the meantime a much higher memory consuption than I had before. Use a tool in windows sidebar I had before a usage of memory of around 25%, right now I end up at 40-ish. I used the task manager but wasn´t able to notice a significant change in pocesses.

So I assume that the upgrader is still running and consuming disk-space but also main memory. Does anyone know where -once you started the BIOS upgrade - this tool is storing files and processes? In addition, the issue (my assumption) is that the BIOS flashing tool is the cause for that. Any link or hint how I can repair this one?

Would be great! Thnaks in advance, Michael
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post #7 of 8
8/11/07 at 6:16am
I would make a bootable flash drive via the blind flashing sticky tutorial (or if you really need to, it also has links and inst. on how to do a bootable CD).
That should take you all of 5 min..... then put the bios update .exe onto the flashdrive (CD) and reboot... hit F12 for one-time boot menu select USB drive (or cd drive) the type nameofbiosflash.exe and thats it.

D.
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post #8 of 8
8/12/07 at 1:05am
Thread Starter 
ok, thanks. this one should help.
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