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Ace0068

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October 27th, 2007 18:00

Help with Complications due to BIOS Change!!

Hey Everyone-
 
Start off by telling you I have a Inspiron 6400 notebook computer.  It's not a computer I use a ton but long story short I've had this unit for 2 years, I decided last week to reinstall the operating systems and refresh everything.  When I went to the drivers and download page for dell it recommended for my computer  BIOS A17  before reinstalling my operating disks I orginally had A06.  
 
Ever since I put on BIOS A17 my machine likes to do goofy things, I'm not sure how to find the proper BIOS for my computer or to change back to the orginal if recommended.  Thanks in advance

Hydralisk00222

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October 27th, 2007 18:00


Ace0068 wrote:
Hey Everyone-
 
Ever since I put on BIOS A17 my machine likes to do goofy things

define goofy
 
if you find the A06 bios executable on support.dell.com you can just roll it back

Ace0068

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October 27th, 2007 21:00

Sorry about the goofy things... Let me expand I'm having problems with some of my applications sometimes I will have an internet page up and it will close on its own.  Some of my startup applications will load one time and not the next time.  I use to be able to have the ability to go in and change my computer power options to standby etc. when the lid was shut and now I have no options.  I also use to have the ability to choose from 4 different resolution options now I have only two options.
 
Long story short I know I have more problems then just the BIOS, I guess I was looking for some feedback if I should try and find the old BIOS instead of using the new one.  I know most of the issues I described above have nothing to do with the BIOS.  I'm just assuming that some of the problems are linked to the BIOS..

Hydralisk00222

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October 27th, 2007 22:00

it sounds like you didn't finish installing all the necessary drivers and the windows updates.

pcgeek11

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October 28th, 2007 06:00

When you flashed the BIOS it whould have made a back-up copy of the old BIOS in the folder yopu flashed from. It would be named BIOS.BAK. You can use the flash program to flash this back into the BIOS Chip.
 
Here is a link to the DELL FTP BIOS Files: ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/
 
pcgeek11


Message Edited by pcgeek11 on 10-28-2007 02:02 AM

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