Bios A11 update for Inspiron 7520.

Yes....Win 8.1 is not a good choice for the hd 7730m. I have found that most of the stuff that was compatible with windows 7, is not in windows 8.1.

Been fighting trying to get answers on these forums for weeks. I have contacted AMD about the card, and they point there fingers at Dell and Dell Tells me otherwise. 

Using the card for basic computer functions-Is about all your going to get.

Using Card for a hand full of Games-Is a big Maybe.

The only programs I find compatible are programs, I do not care for using with the card. You can't even use the card to watch any BlueRays, or any media that came with the laptop.

It was advertised, as a discrete hd 7730M....Nothing about switchable graphics....OR thats how i seen it advertised???

I was told, that, I was wrong-and i should have done my research.There excuse"difference between discrete and dedicated.....HD 4000 is the dedicated and the HD 7730M is a discrete...And there is NO WAY, to rewrite the Bios to use the HD 7730M.( I really do believe that amd or dell, could rewrite the bios on the card or the board! When looking at the MB alone....You can see that the Card is in-bedded. CPU/HD 4000 has to be added.HD 4000 is apart of the processor.) "But You will lose that argument every-time.. "....They should at least, create software that would help us out????But all outdated....

Dont get me wrong, its a great laptop, but Man, I could have saved money and purchased the one without the discrete graphics. I went all out on this one, because of the HD7730M, ----1080 screen, 1tb drive, Msata 32gb ssd"IRST", and BlueRay Player....

Its a Huge Gamble on any program you purchase to use with the card...30% chance it will be compatible..

I stumbled on your post, when I stumbled onto the A11 Bios"not advertised, when I look up my laptop on Dell"

I seen that A11 is suppose to fix something that has to do with the Cards Samsung Memory??? Was hoping it would help make more things Compatible..

If you want to save some time and arguments-Take a peek at all of my previous Post....I got a little out of hand on the Muxless and Muxed Argument, But I was just a little irritated, about the fact...

Good Luck with your Laptop!!!!

I might have to give it a try...I hate bios updates on Dell, No way to revert them back if there not a fix.

Did you notice any before and afters? did you get smoother frame-rates? Every game I have played, that are compatible, play great!!! I didn't notice any difference in 7 and 8.1

I to tried every driver I could think of before settling with(with the Card)

2014.0417.2226.38446 CCC 14.4

and

14.10.1006-140417a-171098C

Using Windows 8.1

I found the above CCC 14.4 was the best driver for this card. I got it straight from the AMD site, using there auto detect and install....AMD Fixed this driver for all the Cards like this.>Just need to make sure you get rid of all traces of the older drivers

I really want to try this bios....Is it the Bios in the Link? Can you post back a little later if you notice any differences?

Thanks for the confirmation on the bios Upgrade!!!!

I think the new BIOS doesn't affect the games in any sort...though there were a few lags today but i am guessing that was bcoz of the new uTorrent version (which may be faulty. It is using large CPU resources).
A11 BIOS is fine. But in any case wait 1 or 2 weeks before updating to A11, for my another post about this BIOS fix.

Dont know what the BIOS changed (i think its just a little fix for the memory gpu voltages)

But the fix for the Touchpad LED can be found here:

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/be/nl/bedhs1/DriverDetails/Product/inspiron-15r-se-7520?driverId=KCKT5&osCode=WB64A&fileId=3371004784&languageCode=NL&categoryId=IN&l=en

Thanks for the link.

I uninstalled the old driver-restarted the laptop

installed new driver---restarted the laptop

Light works perfect......I don't think the lights worked since I had this thing.....

Thanks for the reply...

There is a tiny difference of gaming for A11 rather than A10 BIOS.

I test in BF3(Auto, mostly mid + 4AA+4AF+1080p) and Skyrim(all high, 1080p,2x FXAA,2AF).

In BF3 the fps increases from 30-41 to 32-45.

In Skyrim the fps increases from 25-35 to 29-36

However, A11 is not perfect.when I am using an SSD rather than HDD.

When cold boot up(from shutdown not from restart), the computer will enter boot up page and shut down once, and i have to press power button again for second boot up in order to enter windows.

I am using Windows 8.1

here's the BIOS,but you should understand that there's risk to update BIOS

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz8XK0BwCCZBNzVySnJrYlV3VlU&usp=sharing

:)

I'm using windows 10 pro. I have downloaded the bios file 7520A11.exe from dell's site.

I double clicked in the file cliked ok and the PC restarted. 

Then the first screen show a message like "Error: Invalid Firmware Image!!!".

Have you ever experienced something similar?

Hi,

the installer is made for windows 8 to be precise. Had some troubles here after upgrading the BIOS in 8.1. Got a replacement motherboard and whiped HDD with fresh windows 8 on it.

First upgraded it to the latest BIOS and then to windows 10. Works perfect. Try installing all the latest drivers from dell but dont forget to get the latest AMD and Intel grafics drivers after the ones from Dell..

Were You able to upgrade the BIOS to A11 version?

I'm asking cause I'm also using Win10 Pro on Inspiron 15R SE 7520 and have been facing problems with AMD HD 7730 drivers.

Currently I have to keep the Display adapter of AMD disabled otherwise the PC keeps on restarting with "thread stuck in device driver error".

The AMD driver version on my system is "15.200.1045.0" and a new version is available on drivers page but the installation of new Driver fails so I was thinking of Upgrading my BIOS as last resort.

I did the Bios update in win8 but this went fine.

For the display drivers, first get the latest display driver from the Intel website and install & reboot.

Then get the latest driver from AMD, the beta 16. something works fine. Install & reboot. Should work fine then. 

hi everyone,

I wan't to ask you if the problem that someone pointed with windows 10 and the bios update installer is solved so that I can update me laptop...

Does anyone have any idea?

thanks in advance