600m BIOS A11

BattleField Vietnam plays PERFECTLY just right something A09/A10 couldn't do which i know from personal experience!

I don't know because when i got my new motherboard(old one broke) i just ran the update again and it worked fine!

Hello. I have a problem:  The Dell support service changed the motherboard of  my Inspiron 600m. Now the Bios Update doesn't run. It say "unsupporte system".

the motherboard "think" it is a "latitude" computer. I have to "force" the Bios Update.  How do I do that??

thank you,

 

Fawsy

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@FaBeRo wrote:

Hello. I have a problem:  The Dell support service changed the motherboard of  my Inspiron 600m. Now the Bios Update doesn't run. It say "unsupporte system".

the motherboard "think" it is a "latitude" computer. I have to "force" the Bios Update.  How do I do that??

thank you,

 

Fawsy

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I searched and found these two posts, hope they help.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=latit_bios&message.id=6583&highlight=Force+a+bios+update#M6583

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_bios&message.id=19175&highlight=Force+a+bios+update#M19175

ripper

Thanks Ripper!

But when I run it with the options (/forceit /forcetype) it shutdow windows (xp)... and say "it cann't update the BIOS because no ROM image found"... or something like that...

 

what could it be?

 

thanks in advance!

Thanks, but they send me the new MB with the A08 BIOS.  I have to update to A11 or? where to find the 754 755 that you mention? (for the Inspiron 600m?)

The other problem is that this new MB doesn't have the Services Tag! then I can't se the admin passoword!

what should I do?

my system is an Inspiron 600m, 1.4 GHz...

thanks!

 

 

In the post i was wrong i mentioned that i was wrong and the new A11 BIOS has all the gaming problems of the A08/A09! So if you plan on playing games you will downgrade the new motherboards BIOS as SOON AS YOU GET IT(i did when i got the new one when my old one broke) to bios A02-A06 from A08-A11! And because the new dothans require A11 there will be many unhappy buyers of the 600m who ordered the 745 1.8GHZ and cannot downgrade the BIOS but cannot play a game for more than 5mins without serious gaming problems(lag where you cannot move or do a thing for 3+mins.)!

Message Edited by HALO PRO on 05-16-2004 02:25 AM

PLease read the post "I was wrong" in the Inspiron BIOS section for a VERY IMPORTANT update!

You mean to tell me that the problem of gaming on the 600M is still an issue . This is quite incredible that Dell continues to ignore this very apparent issue . I have totally given up on trying to play games on my 600M, but hellooo Dell, this should be getting some attention from your engineers to get this problem solved.

Dell Inspiron 600M (Bios A11)
Pentium-M 1.7
768 MB DDR 266mhz
ATI Radeon 9000 64 Meg
Fujitsu 40gb HD
HL-DT-ST 24x Combo CD-RW/DVD
SigmaTel C-Major Audio
Dell TrueMobile 802.11b/g
Windows XP SP2 RC1

You can still game fine because you don't have a dothan simply downgrade your BIOS as it is completely safe on the i600m i already did it and am now very happy with my HALO/BFV performance

well... I still have the problem: How to update from A08 a A11 in a computer that thinks is a Latitud D600 and it is a Inspiron 600m.

To force the BIOS update, I need a Bootable diskette...but...

Other problem: I need to burn a Bootable CD, because I don't have Floppy Disk Drive.  But the RecordNow applicacion (Sonic) ask for a system Diskette to make bootable a CD...

 

any ideas?

 

thanks friends!

HAVE YOU NOT BEEN READING THIS? If you do any gaming downgrade to below A08 not up to A11! As this will take away most of the lag you've come to see!

yes, but I don't play with my computer, I need it to work.

I need upgrade the BIOS in order to fix the problem of reading the Service Tag, and then the problem of set the BIOS password. It only works it the BIOS is set to Inpiron 600m

And to force the Bios upgrade I need a Boot CD.

thanks

Oh ok i'm sorry i see but i don't have an answer

I understand that to downgrade the bios is an option to fix the gaming issue. But this still does not release Dell from it's responsability to find and fix the problem.

Dell Inspiron 600M
Bios A11
Pentium-M 1.7
768 MB DDR 266mhz
ATI Radeon 9000 64 Meg
Fujitsu 40gb HD
HL-DT-ST 24x Combo CD-RW/DVD
SigmaTel C-Major Audio
Dell TrueMobile 802.11b/g
Windows XP SP2