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Precision m4300
I am an ex Dell warranty engineer that now works for a Multi vendor support company, I have just replaced a motherboard on a precision M4300 with another 6 of the same waiting to be done. All are out of Warranty. Each replacement board comes out configured as a LAT D830 and i know from my Time with Dell that same motherboards were used in various machines, and that to get the correct BIOS you have to Force the BIOS from a pure DOS environment, and not just a DOS prompt from within windows and then type fro m a command prompt c:\ biosname /forcetype, the bios upgrade starts to load but then says only trouble it says that I cant do that, i have also tried other switches such as /Forceit and also /Jabil and every combination of all of these each with the same non working result and error.
So my questions are Can you force Flash a D830 BIOS with a Pecision M4300 or can you only do it the other way ie Precision m4300 to Lat d830?
and if it can be done where am i going wrong?
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June 21st, 2011 10:00
I am Delll Certified and the Dell utility disk only changes the TAG number and not the board type
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Dell Precision M4300 Motherboard GU095 DX779
Unless you are Dell certified I don't think the information will be available to you.
There is a Dell Tech only utility to change the service tag and board type.
The Bios utility checks this and installs accordingly.