XPS8500 bios a09

Thanks, I am using windows 7 with A06.

I don't think Mr. Priyanka has been paying attention.  The upgrade relates to bios A09 not bios 08 (which doesn't seem to exist, at least on my country site) and this addresses a raft of PCIe issues, as a casual reading of the postings on this forum will show:

en.community.dell.com/.../20188346.aspx

There is a link on this same thread from Chris, timestamped 18 sept 4:48pm, that does work and provides A09 with the same checksum as the driver page. The description also seems a little odd. Who has a diskette that will hold 7M?, the post from Chris tells you how to do it.

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Priyanka S
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Yes - it would be nice if Dell could get their story straight on this bios !!!

BIOS A09 for XPS 8500 with Win 7 64-bit is here.

Use the Single File download option, NOT the Download Manager option.

It downloaded ok for me, but I don't have XPS 8500 so I can't say that the .exe actually works. :emotion-5:

The download link doesn't work for me, either. Single File download says "Sorry, the requested file could not be downloaded."

Downloaded & installed A09 yesterday with no problems. I just (8:45 AM EST) followed Ron's link and A09 will download for me.

THe download link does not work for me

Actually, there are quite a few of us who follow the directions on the downloads page and have no trouble with the downloads or the installation.  I believe the later posts on the thread complaining about lack of support for certain PCI-e X1 cards demonstrates that fact.  If you are unable to download for some reason, I doubt that the fault lies with Dell.

Where are you located?

I disabled the pop-up blocker and I am still getting the message: Sorry, the requested file could not be downloaded

Seems like typical Dell.

No Quality Assurance or testing of their offering - hardware or software. Yet they continue to market a defective product.

Does anybody Dell actually follow the directions that Dell is telling it's customers to follow ?

COME ON DELL - step up and have the decency to admit the problem, desribe what solution you are offering and what issues will it fix.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM, DELL.

What do you see on your screen as you attempt to download the file?  I first click the Download File icon, I then see a screen asking by what method I would like to download the file, I click the Single File Download option and click Continue, and then get a box asking if I would like to save the file.  I am using Firefox and only have that option, I cannot run it directly.  Once I download the file, however, it is executable.

Since you are seeing an error message about being unable to download, may I assume you are getting through the entire process, at least up to the Save file dialog box?

Also, is there any possibility that you have a firewall setting that prevents you from accessing certain web sites?  If not, I would check with your Internet provider to see if your service is having trouble with the servers that Dell uses.

Dell-ChrisM placed a direct link in his message to the PCI-e problem thread; can you use that to download?  That link is here:  http://pages.suddenlink.net/downloaddell/A09.EXE