Dell Inspiron 3800 System BIOS, A09

The following updates were made to the A08 BIOS to create the A09 BIOS:

Issues fixed:
1. Fixed problem where the display brightness setting is not saved during
suspend.
2. Fixed issue where Dell Control Center and Dell OpenManage Client
Instrumentation (OMCI) are unable to control the keyboard click volume.
3. Fixed issue seen under Dell OMCI where the processor cache information
is not reported correctly.
4. Fixed issue seen under Dell OMCI where the maximum memory supported is
not reported correctly.
5. Fixed issue where a 2nd hard drive that is password protected cannot
be accessed when hot-swapped into the modular bay from a CD-ROM.
6. Fixed issue seen under Dell OMCI where the system fails to report a
thermal events.
7. Fixed problem where Dell Control Center is unable to set some boot
sequence options.
8. Fixed problem where the touchpad may lock up when docked to a Port
Replicator.
9. Fixed issue seen under Windows 2000 where the system detects the
Network Adapter in a Port Replicator when the Network Adapter is disabled
in System Setup but the Docking IRQ is set to IRQ 11.
10. Fixed problem in which the top of the display has a small amount of
corrupt video after resume from suspend in certain VESA modes.
11. Make sure to properly report the 'Lower Critical' temperature to Dell
OMCI.
12. Improved ability of the system to restore a hard disk drive to its
proper DMA mode after resume from suspend. This only applies to drives
that support the ATA 4 standard or higher.
13. Fixed the issue in which the drive capacity for some large hard disk
drives would be incorrectly reported by the BIOS.
14. Fixed issue where 720KB floppies cannot be read if the floppy disk
drive is hot-inserted and 1.44MB media is read first.
15. Fixed problem under Windows 2000 where the system does not always
report the correct battery charge percentage when a second battery is
present.
16. Fixed intermittent issue where turning off power during POST would
cause the system to report CMOS corruption on the next boot.
17. Fixed problem in which the system would enter suspend when the lid was
closed while both the LCD and an external CRT were active (i.e. simul-scan
mode).
18. Improved issue seen in Windows 98 where the LCD may flash on and off
several times during boot-up and shut-down.
19. Fixed problem where the touchpad locks up if it is touched while the
system is scanning information using a scanner attached to the serial port.

Enhancements:
1. Added support for Quick Boot and Simple Boot - "Boot POST"
in System Setup.
2. Added support for APM Safe-Shutdown utility.
3. Added support for Wake on RTC - "Auto On Mode" in System
Setup.
4. Added support for USB keyboards outside of Windows.
5. Allow Contrast keys to work as Brightness keys if the system has a TFT
panel.
6. Add a pop-up message when (reverse video) is pressed on TFT
systems, which don't support this function. This message will not appear
when running Windows 2000 or Windows Millennium.
7. Added Dell SMBIOS ver 1.4 support.
8. Added field on first page of System Setup to display the Current CPU
Speed for Geyserville processors.
9. Set "Boot Third Device" to CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive in System Setup by
default.
10. Added support for newer Pentium III processor revisions.
11. Modified the System Setup layout and added improvements to the help
text.


The BIOS release has been validated on the following operating systems:
1. Microsoft Windows 98 SE (APM only)
2. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
3. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
4. Microsoft Windows 2000 ACPI
5. Microsoft Windows Millennium ACPI