> I booted the stick, was a bit confused as to why freedos did not do > anything and fdos was the option, and found the BIOS file in drive C:\. > I ran it. It looked promising, but alas, alack, no. > -Start to flash ……. [ Y / N]: Y > - Error: Problem getting flash information > C:\> > > I went back to the Dell website, entered my service tag: BQBD9N1 and > downloaded the latest BIOS file “M5030A05.EXE” (again, and remember the > A05 is a latter version to the installed BIOS which describes its > version as A02). > https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/product-support/servicetag/0-YXhUR091TFhQWVdkR0VXeUY0cTREQT090/drivers > > I deleted the BIOS file on the USB stick, copied over the new one and > tried again.
You've done everything correctly. Dell are very good about ensuring you only see updates for the correct machine when you look it up by service tag so you definitely have the right file. The fact that it could not get the flash information means that something else is interfering with what the program is trying to do. > Any best guesses welcome, or am I at the end of the line? You can try pressing F5 a few times as FreeDOS is first booting which will prevent it loading any DOS memory managers which can sometimes interfere with direct hardware access. If this works you should see a lot fewer messages on the screen before you see the C:\> prompt. If that still doesn't work, all I can suggest is going into the BIOS setup (F2 at the Dell logo) and make sure there aren't any options set that might be preventing the BIOS from being updated for security/antivirus reasons. Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
