I've had good luck flashing BIOS outside of Windows with Rufus-made FreeDOS bootable flash drive. If in UEFI-Mode, you might have to temporarily switch back to Legacy-Mode to get flash-drive to boot:
The above should help you force a BIOS update outside of Windows.
I suggest you do it while talking to phone support in case your motherboard bricks (gets killed), they should honor the warranty and you can get a new motherboard for free.
Also ... Unless your download was corrupt or you accidentally downloaded the wrong BIOS update file, it sounds like there might also be an issue with file repository database that needs to be worked-out by Dell.
Alienware - Rodrigo
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February 2nd, 2017 11:00
Hi,
Send us your Service Tag in a private message, so we can look into this.
Tesla1856
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February 2nd, 2017 11:00
I've had good luck flashing BIOS outside of Windows with Rufus-made FreeDOS bootable flash drive. If in UEFI-Mode, you might have to temporarily switch back to Legacy-Mode to get flash-drive to boot:
www.howtogeek.com/.../
The above should help you force a BIOS update outside of Windows.
I suggest you do it while talking to phone support in case your motherboard bricks (gets killed), they should honor the warranty and you can get a new motherboard for free.
Also ... Unless your download was corrupt or you accidentally downloaded the wrong BIOS update file, it sounds like there might also be an issue with file repository database that needs to be worked-out by Dell.