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Inspiron 14R N4110 UEFI?
Is there a way to get UEFI booting to work on the Inspiron 14R N4110? I am on the latest available BIOS (A12).
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Is there a way to get UEFI booting to work on the Inspiron 14R N4110? I am on the latest available BIOS (A12).
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December 3rd, 2012 23:00
Hi Souvik1997,
It wont be possible to enable UEFI option on Inspiron N4110 as it does not support UEFI boot.
Please reply if you have any questions.
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December 4th, 2012 05:00
Furthermore, someone has in fact enabled UEFI booting on the Inspiron 7110 with the same BIOS (Phoenix SecureCore Tiano). This is quite outrageous. UEFI laptops have been available for a long time. I just bought my computer last year, and since it cannot be upgraded to booting with UEFI makes me reluctant to buy other Dell products in the future if they cannot ensure their computers are at least future-proof for at least a few years.
en.community.dell.com/.../20188427.aspx
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December 4th, 2012 05:00
The BIOS is a Phoenix SecureCore Tiano, which does support UEFI boot. Other laptops with the same bios can boot with UEFI, I'm just wondering why the N4110 cannot. Dell has apparently disabled this feature.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
This proves that the SecureCore Tiano is a UEFI-capable BIOS.
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December 5th, 2012 05:00
Just bumping this topic.
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December 5th, 2012 15:00
Well, I've successfully been able to enable UEFI/GPT booting with the help of this thread: www.bios-mods.com/.../Thread-Enabling-UEFI-booting-on-Dell-Inspiron-14R-N4110
To summarize, for anyone else with the same goal:
1. Download the offical updater .exe from Dell's site: www.dell.com/.../inspiron-14r-n4110
2. Download this file: http://www.mediafire.com/?o8b6jd7qfdxu7ke
3. Move both of the files to the same directory
4. Open a command prompt (Shift-Right click in Windows Explorer), and run PMPatch.exe N4110A12.exe N4110A12_patched.exe
Watch for this output in the command prompt window:
5. You should have a new file called N4110A12_patched.exe in the same directory as the other files. Double click this file, accept the warning that you're flashing an earlier BIOS version if you see that, and the BIOS updater tool should reboot your computer to flash the BIOS. DO NOT turn off the power while it's flashing
6. After flashing, the computer should reboot. Press F12 as it's booting and choose Setup using the arrow keys and press enter.
7. Press the right arrow key and scroll all the way down. You should have a lot of new options within submenus. Look through those options, and you should find an option to toggle UEFI booting (Boot Configuration)
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February 28th, 2017 20:00
Hi souvik1997,
could you please re-update the link because there is nothing now. I also wanna try to modif my BIOS.
Thanks