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August 24th, 2015 10:00
Inspiron N5110 BIOS support for Windows 10
I have Inspiron N5110 and u know MS is offering free upgrade to Windows 10, but I tried for upgrade the message came that BIOS is not supported.
Can anybody help me in upgrading the BIOS for my laptop? I would appreciate.
Thanks in advance.
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DELL-Todd S
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August 25th, 2015 15:00
Hi,
Unfortunately, the Inspiron N5110 is not on the list of systems that Dell has confirmed to be compatible with Windows 10. That means we will not be releasing any new drivers, or BIOS updates, specific to Windows 10.
You may want to search on the Windows 10 forums of these boards. There may be people that have found a way to upgrade the N5110 to Windows 10, but off hand I don't know of anyone that has.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I don't think you'll be able to do the upgrade.
Todd
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August 25th, 2015 17:00
The Get Windows 10 App gives the error message BIOS not supported. There are many that had BIOS A11 installed, that simply ignored the error message and Windows Update. They then used the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to Upgrade to Windows 10 and have reported no problems. See here:
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/4997/t/19636195?pi239031352=1#20812819
To use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to upgrade see here:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/upgrading-to-windows-10/