E6410 BIOS Won't Upgrade

I've had my E6410 for just over year and have tried updating the BIOS today and it just won't. It came shipped with A05, and I tried going to A09 before going to A11 as the readme says you need to go to A09 first. I have tried going through with the exe from within Windows 7 Pro x64, as well as creating a USB with freedos to try installing it that way but both fail. The system reboots and acts like its going to update but simply reboots again and still has A06. Any ideas?

 

Try installing A07 first.

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I tried using the regular exe as well as trying to use a freedos usb to perform the update. In freedos it goes normally until it gets to the "preparing to update" at which point it goes through the whole loading bar then restarts the machine and after 5-10 seconds the bios splash screen pops up and it reboots normally without ever updating the bios?

 

Are you updating the BIOS one incremental version at a time?