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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
So changing the OS selection on the Dell support site to Vista 64 bit didn't give you the 64-bit bios update tool? Their support site has shoot me in the foot a few times be refreshing, defaulting back to XP, & then giving me the wrong files. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Link Send message Joined: 18 Sep 03 Posts: 834 Credit: 1,807,369 RAC: 0 |
I'm running Win 7-64 bit and that does not have a 64bit facility for flashing the BIOS in Windows, only a 32 bit one in XP. (Damn Microsoft!) What exactly has Microsoft to do with Dell's BIOS updates? |
Tazz Send message Joined: 5 Oct 99 Posts: 137 Credit: 34,342,390 RAC: 0 |
<snip> I know it's not what you wanted, but here's how to make a bootable USB drive. From the GRC Spinrite FAQ: Hewlett Packard (HP) makes an easy-to-use utility called “HP USB Disk Format Toolâ€, which includes a "Create a DOS Startup Disk" option. It's freely available from:http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197 along with the Windows 98/DOS boot files: http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=196 </Tazz> |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
if DELL is anything like HP they made the board and its BIOS specifically for that computer and CPU. I ran into the same problem trying to upgrade an HP that had an amd Athlon 3800+. the mobo claimed to be able to handle a dual core and 4X the RAM Not so. HP made two mobo's with the same ID. Both with distintly different BIOSes. needless to say I had to replace the whole PC. In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
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