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    XPS 17 L702x - A12 Bios

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by travbjork, Sep 9, 2011.

  1. travbjork

    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    What's it for? Anyone try it yet? Saw it in dell's support stuff, something about CPU's. Sorry, doing it from memory, any ideas? Anybody try it?
     
    travbjork, Sep 9, 2011
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  2. Hatchett

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    I have been running A12 since it was release with no issues.

    According to the Dell description the change from A11 is:

    "Update CPU m-code support new CPU."
     
    Hatchett, Sep 9, 2011
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    Probably adding support for the new tweaked Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs that just came out.
     
    madmattd, Sep 9, 2011
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  4. travbjork

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    Thanks, that makes sense I suppose. I really hope they unlock the higher clocked ram speed too, not that there's anything wrong with 1333 or anything.

    Can anyone be of more help? Just seeing if anyone noticed any other differences or perhaps has a link to a change log of some sort. I'm sure others will be wondering this too :)

    Thanks,
    Travis :err:
     
    travbjork, Sep 9, 2011
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    They won't unlock 1600RAM or RAID. They are pushing people to buy those ugly (or at least gaudy and obnoxious) Alienwares for that.
     
    madmattd, Sep 13, 2011
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    alaariadh Notebook Enthusiast

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    yes i try it but not that huge difference u imagine
     
    alaariadh, Sep 13, 2011
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    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    Not to say they won't unlock it eventually, especially once the next gen systems come out. But I understand right now they Alienware needs to eat it's cake too.
     
    travbjork, Sep 13, 2011
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    What Dell fails to understand is that people will NOT buy an Alienware for features such as RAID or faster RAM. They buy Alienware's for the higher-end processors and video cards.
     
    savagess2546, Sep 19, 2011
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  9. madmattd

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    Agreed, but it's Dell...
     
    madmattd, Sep 19, 2011
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    Is there some kind of modding the BIOS to unlock the ram speed.I read that some people unlocked Alienware 14 for moding the gpu voltage ??
     
    batmemo, Sep 20, 2011
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    hey guys is there an bios unlock ? one that shows raid options and unlock ram speed sothat it can run on 1600 instea locked on 1333, , please send me an unlocked bios
     
    WesleyNL, Feb 20, 2012
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