XPS M1210 BIOS Update Error

Question

I am having trouble trying to update to the new BIOS version release.   'MXC062 BIOS Flash A07   An unexpected error occured while running the Flash application. Please reboot and try again.   If the error continues, please contact technical help.   Application Error Return: 0x00000610 Windows Error Return: 0x00000002'   My current BIOS version is A05. I'm running on Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit. I've tried rebooting, no luck. I run it as administrator, it still doesn't work. Technical support? Forget that I'd rather post on the forums. I would like to stay away from the DOS method because I don't any DOS bootable CDs to use. Please help!

DELL-Jimmy P · Answer

johnouyoung wrote:  I would like to stay away from the DOS method because I don't any DOS bootable CDs to use. Please help! Your Drivers and utilities CD is a bootable CD.

johnouyoung · Answer

Thanks for the tip.  However, the hard drive is not accessible from the bootup off that CD. The only drives available is the CD drive itself, and a virtual drive that is created as a C drive. Do you know how to access the hard drive from using that disc?   I tried running the command prompt from the Windows Vista recovery CD off boot up, but I can't get the BIOS flash program to run successfully.

DELL-Jimmy P · Answer

johnouyoung   Burn the bios flash files onto a CD, boot off the drivers and utilitys cd and then put the one you burned into the drive.

E-Gizmo · Answer

This solution came from another post and has worked for me and others in situations like this. Be careful with Regedit as you can mess up other things, but you're trying to get rid of some Dell BIOS update keys that were created by running the flash program once, but now prevent the program from running again:

1. Click on start then run and type "regedit" in the box and press enter. (without the quotes)
2. Expand and Look for: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM ->ControlSet001 -> Services -> DELLBIOS
3. Delete DELLBIOS folder
4. Restart the system
5. Re-flash BIOS

johnouyoung · Answer

Thank you so much, you finally gave me a solution that will work without the use of CDs/flash drives, etc... Everyone else provided me with information I already knew of but you gave me exactly what I was looking for.  It's about time I got this BIOS updated!

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XPS M1210 BIOS Update Error

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