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sabrina2004
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August 2nd, 2004 17:00
powered off after updated BIOS
Hello,
I have a big problem of my latitude C400 now. :'(
I just updated BIOS to A10, it installed well and shut down the computer. Then it showed Upadating Bios Information on the black screen, suddenly it shut off the power. Even though i have the AC adapter connected, the green light did not show up. So now I can't restart my compuater at all. What happened ? :"( Please help me out!
Thanks ,
Sabrina
sabrina2004
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Posted August 3rd, 2004 12:00
Leduke30:
Thanks a lot :) I did not smell sth burned, but I think that you are right. Dell will send a technician to replace the Motherboard today.
- Fried is just slang. What happens usually is that after erasing the previous set of BIOS, the new one fails to be written. That leaves you with essentially a bare chip. If you think of the BIOS as the "heartbeat" of your machine, you basically stop the heartbeat and then jumpstart it. That is the reason I do not like the Harddrive method; too often the jumpstart does not occur. I did one HD Flash about a year ago to see what was involved. It was successful, but the hair stood up on the back of my neck when I saw what was occurring. I will not try it again.
- That was not my intended meaning. Dell issues updates for good reasons. I would only recommend you use the Floppy Method. I have done many flashes over the years and only had one problem. That was with a ECS (piece-of-junk) PC M'board which had been acting twitchy for some time. It operated correctly for 15-20 minutes after the flash and the BIOS String on the opening screens had a changed version and date showing. Then BAM, it just quit, many black screen error messages, then nothing and no bootup. The flash had finished what had been wrong before the flash.
sabrina2004
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Posted August 3rd, 2004 14:00
Thanks again for the slang :P
So it is better not to update the BIOS?
- Thank you for your reply.but I want to know if the single nonpackaged file is no risk, such asI600mA16.EXE 632 KB 1.5 min Non-PackagedDescriptionThis file format consists of a BIOS executable file. The Universal (Windows/MS DOS) format can be used to install from Windows XP, Windows 2000, NT, Windows 9X, Windows ME or a MS DOS environment.
Thks again.
- I have used that file a number of times on a system disk floppy without incident. You make a System Disk first under W98/ME by clicking by opening the A: drive and clicking Format. Checkmark Copy System Files and you will make a Bootable System Disk. This cannot be done under W2000 unfortunately, but you can use a disk made on another machine with either W98/ME. Under W-XP, it is referred to as a as a MS-DOS Startup disk. You then dowload the Nonpackaged file to your desktop and use the "Send To 3 1/2" Floppy drive(A)" option. to move the file to the System Disk Floppy. This method works well to either update or downgrade with an older BIOS version and will not quarrel with you about a downgrade.
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Posted August 2nd, 2004 21:00