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September 21st, 2012 12:00
BIOS versions, upgrades
Hey Dell Team,
My XPS13 shipped with BIOS A04 and I see that upgrades all the way through A07 are available., which raises two questions:
1. Do you recommend we upgrade the BIOS for any added benefits, or do they even really apply? (I see A07 had some new setting for batteries but didn't explain what the change was, some other changes were Windows-specific, but overall the descriptions were extremely vague)
2. Since the downloads are Windows/DOS only, has Dell been working on a way for us to do this via Linux?
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kkillebrew
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September 21st, 2012 16:00
I just successfully installed the A07 BIOS by creating a bootable FreeDOS image on a USB stick using unetbootin, copying over the BIOS installer, then booting to live FreeDOS (waring - default boot option is to install FreeDOS!) with the power connected, then running the BIOS installer.
I followed the tutorial here:
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php
I see there's a Dell utility here for updating a BIOS from Linux:
http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdisk/
However, the utility appears to only work with RPM-based distributions.
iandouglas736
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September 21st, 2012 17:00
Nice, okay. I'm curious about what the guys at Dell would say about whether these upgrades would fix anything for us, though. Give us some extra documentation at the very least, to know what the "battery" fix is in A07.
tschmelcher
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January 6th, 2013 21:00
FYI, the XPS 13 Developer Edition is the "new" XPS 13 hardware, model number L322X. There is no A07 for it; the latest BIOS is A06. The A07 that you found is probably for the "old" XPS 13, the L321X.
tschmelcher
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January 6th, 2013 21:00
Oh, actually based on the date you must have been in the pilot program, so yours probably was the L321X.