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July 28th, 2016 07:00

Unable to intall BIOS update

For pending upgrade been advised to update BIOS

This is on a Dimension E521  BIOS 1.1.4

I have downloaded the new BIOS   file: DME521-010111      I put in on an empty USB stick  ..... checked USB stick can be read and file is visible.

Went into BIOS and checked
'on board devices' > USB controller = ON

'front USB' = ON

Then did a restart to boot menu with F12

It gives option to boot to 'USB-ZIP'

I select that ... screen blanks ... then after a pause I get message on screen:

Remove disks or other media

Press any key to restart

If I press any key. just get same message at each key press.

Do I need to make USB bootable ? .... I did a little googling and came across an article that said to use CMD prompt and DISKPART

However couldn't proceed as when I used list disk

it only shows HDD not the USB so could not proceed

Do I need to make it bootable ? .... if so is there another way

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July 28th, 2016 07:00

OK .... seems I was reading wrong info .... I managed to make USB drive bootable on another PC ..  but also found that BIOS file will install by simply running it.

Why so may references to booting to USB drive and going that route - no idea.

Anyway now update to 1.1.11

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