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April 8th, 2011 20:00
BIOS ROM checksum failure
I was trying to update my bios from ao4 to a11 and the machine turned off while in the middle of the installation. I have a 1 year old arura r3 with i7 cpu 7 gig of ram and a gtx 275 1792 video card. The original problem stemmed from the from the pci fan running constantly. I was told that I may need to upgrade my bios i checked for possible downloads and a11 would have worked. I called alienware to see if they could help me even though it has no warantee. The guy told me that I need to "flash" the bios by saving the ao4 installation on a flash drive plug it into the usb port and power it up. Well it didnt work. Does anyone know of another way of bypassing a corrupt bios? Otherwise I will have to buy another mobo which is $506.
Tesla1856
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April 9th, 2011 12:00
A 1 year old Aurora is not a R3 ... it's either R1 (X-58) or R2.
The PCI fan issue is likey not a BIOS problem.
Stop trying to flash it. Does the BIOS screen appear when your Aurora starts up? What is the machine doing now?
There is no dual-BIOS or backup-BIOS functionality on these AW boards. Many Aurora and Area-51 systems have been bricked lately with these new BIOS files. Dell's only response is to replace the boards (if in warranty).
Cyberpunk881
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April 15th, 2011 11:00
The only thing that my pc does is starts up fans all run for 3 seconds it beeps once then shuts down.... then restarts and the whole process repeats... Readng other forums it looks like I need an actual bios flash utility program.. As you can tell my knowledge of computers is limited. And if I do replace the mobo with a ms-7591 mobo will I need a new restore disk?