Vista Upgrade Assistant failed to update BIOS - A Solution

Question

The Dell Windows Vista Upgrade Assistant DVD failed when attempting to update the BIOS on my E1505 laptop. Gave dialog box “An unexpected error occurred while running the Flash application. Please reboot and try again.”

The steps to get around this and update my BIOS are below. Thanks to penguinspenguins for pointing me to the solution. I condensed the steps to simplify:

Download the latest BIOS update file from Dell Support. The file name for my E1505 laptop was MM061A12.exe

Copy the BIOS update file to a CD.

Locate your Dell Utility and Recovery CD that came with your PC and place in the CD drive.

Restart the PC while holding down the F12 key. Select to boot from the CD.

At the menu, select "Open DOS prompt".

You should now see a DOS prompt. Mine was F:>

Remove the Dell Utility CD and insert the CD you made containing the BIOS update file.

Type the name of the BIOS update file to run it.

Follow the BIOS update program prompts. Your BIOS should successfully update.

Remove the CD and replace with the Dell Windows Vista Upgrade Assistant DVD.

Restart the PC and continue with the Vista Upgrade Assistant.

My Vista upgrade went fine after updating the BIOS.

Message Edited by eferg on 03-03-2007 09:02 PM

Snooters · Answer

on my system, (xps410) i got the same message. but 2 seconds later the computer restarted and i noticed the bios message had the new version number. weird, but it actually made the upgrade.

tommyo1954 · Answer

I'm sticking with XP for quite some time. It's simply too much hassles right now.  Microsoft has reported Vista sales figures being down by 60% when the sales are compared to the 2001 launch and sales of Windows XP. I wonder why..... I think there is a good clue there......  stick to what is presently working until the Vista fiasco gets straightened out.

robertc123 · Answer

The Forum seems to be strangely silent today. Do you think that several people checked their mailbox and have installed the Vista update and can no longer access the internet?   :smileywink:

Monguse · Answer

The best way or maybe the fastest is to download the BIOS update the can be run from within windows install the BIOS then doe the Vista install. If Dell's site shows one for your computer.

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