how do i degrade my bios in Inspiron E1505

Question

I recently updagraded the bios to A 17 and it works normally for sometime suddenly it reboots without any reason...i already have lost much of my work..can any one suggest how can i solve it or how do i degrade my bios version back..if u can email me on  thanks in advance for your help

Davin · Answer

When you goto the download page under BIOS, there is a link for Other Versions which list the earlier ones.

Here's A15

Here is how someone said to do it if it wont simply by running it.

or this from Dell-Bill

once at the correct prompt, type the name of the executable for whichever BIOS revision you downloaded and extracted with a /forceit switch. It should look something like this:
filename.exe /forceit

If forceit does not work, try /forcetype or /jabil.

sahil chokshi · Answer

hi i just got version A14 from softpedia and made an HD flash method...
currently it is running good..
but do you think hdflash method is safe or only the floppy bootup method is safe?
also can we do the same as floppy drive with a usb drive ?

thanks for your help

Davin · Answer

I believe there were some issues years ago with the hard drive method, but I think it's safe now. I would imagine a USB device would work just as well as long as it was made bootable.

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