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terrorhertz

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September 24th, 2006 02:00

Bios Flash

I have a Dell Dimension XPS T450. I used the service tag to DL the drivers and bios flash programs. I have a bootable floppy with command.com for MSDOS on it and copied the XPST_A11.exe to it. then rebooted from it.
Boot went fine. I ran the XPST_A11.exe program and it fan...for a while. It told me that it may take about 3 minutes or so then after a few seconds it displayed and error window stateing that it was an invalid upgrade or file.
My main objective is to get the PC to recognize my 60gb and 80gb HDs from another PC.
I volentarily work for a charity for wounded troops. I maintain the website and forum. Then my MB fried. I will get another MB later when I save the money up but for now all I have are a couple of old Dells.(Dimension T450 and a Optiplex gx1) All of my website backups and my updates are on an 80gb HD from the dead PC. I need to get at least one of these Dells to recognize the 80gb HD with my work on it.
I had hoped that a bios flash would fix it.I have only tried to flash the T450 so far. I'll do the GX1 next but any help would be greatly appreciated.

thank you
Terrorhertz
www.laptopsforthewounded.com

jsrder

903 Posts

September 24th, 2006 04:00

Try downloading the BXPST_11 file and let it create the bootable diskette for you ... there may be some compatibility problems with whatever is on your bootable floppy.  Worth a shot.

Aivas47a

1.2K Posts

September 24th, 2006 18:00

I have to say although I was skeptical at first, the executable file Dell provides on the support site to flash the mobo bios has always worked fine for me without the trouble of creating bootable floppies.  I do keep a copy of the old bios on a floppy just in case.

peterfelgate_ce40d3

1.3K Posts

September 25th, 2006 09:00

In most cases you won't need a bios flash on either the GX1 or T series.  The problem is more likely to be the drive jumpering.  Jumper the drives for cable select NOT master or slave, put the disk on the innermost connector of the primary IDE cable with the existing bootable drive on the connector furthest from the motherboard, then reset the NRAM.  Check the disks are detected in the bios correctly. 

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