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Studio XPS 1640 - BIOS upgrade from A06 to A08 breaks CD eject button
Just upgraded BIOS from A06 to A08 and found that the CD eject "button" (i.e. the top row touch thingy) failed to work once the operating system was loaded although it continued to work with just the BIOS loaded. Reversion to A06 BIOS confirmed this - normal function of the CD eject button restored.
Operating systems tried were XP and Windows 7 - I dont have Vista on this machine but as the problem occurred in Windows 7 I suspect it is present in Vista. Perhaps someone who has Vista could check.
System has the Optiarc drive flashed to the A02 firmware (which didnt fix the problem).
Commtekk7
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June 28th, 2009 13:00
Unfortunately, I didn't read your post about the A08 upgrade breaking the cd eject button. Mine is also broken now. Please tell me exactly how to revert to the A06 bios. During the flash, I saw a list of things it was doing and "creating backup" was on it but without calling Dell and waiting on hold forever, I don't know where to go to find the old bios version. I'm running Vista Home Premium. Thanks for your help.
Davet50
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June 28th, 2009 15:00
Thanks for that info will do some looking into this before i update my system. Did either of you have A07 installed?
Davet50
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June 28th, 2009 15:00
send me a private message
Commtekk7
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June 28th, 2009 15:00
I had A06 installed. At least I can still eject discs by using Eject in the BD-ROM menu. And I thought I was lucky after installing the Vista SP2 yesterday and nothing went wrong.
Archway1
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June 29th, 2009 01:00
Not me - went straight from A06 to A08.
Archway1
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June 29th, 2009 05:00
I havent got my laptop in front of me so dont know where the backup is hidden - if you cant find it send me a personal message and I will email A06 BIOS to you.
NinjaRunningWil
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August 1st, 2009 07:00
Same problem happened to me after a stupid Dell tech had me upgrade the bios for a non-illuminating keyboard (I told him the cable was disconnected and lo-and-behold, I was right when the consultant-tech showed up and fixed it). Is it possible for you to post it to Yousendit (set the email to yourself to get the link) and post the link here?
I've found the A05 here : http://ftp.dell.com/bios/1640_A05.exe
Archway1
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August 5th, 2009 05:00
OK; its here:-
http://download.yousendit.com/MnFqV295d0lubVdGa1E9PQ
NinjaRunningWil
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August 5th, 2009 06:00
Awesome! Thanks!
NinjaRunningWil
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September 12th, 2009 22:00
Hey, can you repost this file again to Rapidshare.com and post the link on this page :
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19264032/19448681.aspx#19448681
I had to redo this entire process recently as the Dell's HDD crashed. Yeah, fun!
Archway1
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September 21st, 2009 15:00
Its here, at least for 10 downloads or 90 days:-
http://rapidshare.com/files/283188577/BIOS_Update_A06_R214437.exe.html
Having checked the file name it looks as though it is available from ftp.dell.com in the bios directory.
I recently got hold of a second Studio XPS 1640 - slightly different hardware as it is labelled as Centrino2 and comes with the A10 BIOS which hasnt appeared on the Dell website yet. With this BIOS the CD eject works in Win7 but not in XP (I cloned the hard disk from my older 1640 to this so the software is otherwise identical). I havent tried putting A06 on to this new machine yet in case I break something and wont until I have A10 appears.