XPS m1530 BIOS update A09

your bios version will be on the bottom of the screen during startup.

 

type in msinfo32 from start > run and you will see the system information.. on the right panel you will see the BIOS version. Good luck.

 

ok great, i found it! i currently have A09 so im up to date =D

 

...from the moon & back! LoL!

Anyhows... Great find! Solves some thermal issues and other stuff like the infamous eject button stutter . Just hope am not late, am I? Oh, well! I'm about to update now!

Now will get to see any changes thereafter.

Thanks!

 

I never noticed significant decrease in battery life using A09. The laptop does run a bit cooler and the fan is less noticeable. Since I don't play games on mines and it's been working great with A08 I went back.

 

I'm back again! T'was just a breeze!

I have yet to notice any impact on the performance of my battery.

But that seems so promising, kanehi. Kudos!

Worth mentioning though I'm kind of surprised with how my fan's so quiet now! Neat!

TGIF!

Enjoy your weekends, guys!

 

Hi all,

I thought I'd share this as it helped in updating the bios on my 1530 and wife's 1330.

I 've created a bootable CD that contains all bios updates for these two Dell's (plus a few other ones).

Download the ISO from:

http://www.eeebuntu.org/download/biosupdates.iso
(it's about 16MB)

Burn the image to a CD.

Stick the CD in the drive, boot from it (you may need to press the appropriate F key at boot to get the options).

When you get to the prompt change to the CD drive, e.g. D:

change directory into the dell folder and then into the folder for the specific laptop (M1330 or M1530).

dir to list the updates

Run the appropriate bios update.

The laptop reboots automatically when the update is finished and you'll see the applied bios update on boot.

I just found it an easy way to do it with linux installed.


Steve.

 

Mine updated automatically to A09.

I didn't do a thing.

 

The Dell BIOS is self updating? That would be scary.

 

Automatically??? Are you sure? Or is it possible that your laptop came with an A09 and you just didn't notice it till recently?

To be honest, I have never heard of the Dell BIOS update happening automatically.. I mean, I am not saying its a bad thing, but just that I haven't heard about this till now... Good though..

 

I'm 100% positive mate.

My 1530 shipped with the A07 BIOS - I have NEVER actively done anything to change it.

I noticed a short time after the A09 became available that the start up screen showed the BIOS as being A09.

Maybe DELL forced the update onto us in order to minimise/delay the number of nVidia card failures to save themselves some serious $$$$$ in warranty claims.

 

There is no possible way Dell would force a BIOS update on their machines. Also its pretty hard to miss when your BIOS is being updated, its not just like a software patch, the screen goes white and it blatantly says that your BIOS is being updated. It would be just stupid for Dell to force a BIOS update (this is speculation, as it really isn't even possible) because there would be the issue of users possibly disconnecting the power while the update is in progress and then you have a bricked mobo on your hands. Sorry, not so much.

 

Nope... very unlikely they forced it in.

Probably the BIOS update was done when you were doing something else like say some remote access troubleshooting with Dell... I don't know, but first time I am hearing this. Anyway.. as long as everything is fine, why worry?

 

You sir have got gremlins inside your machine. Have another Fosters.

 

Hi all, im new here..
I normally look around and never register anyway got a problem here..

just few minutes ago downloaded the BIOS for my 1530 and installed it, i had my 08 originally..and guess what??
after i installed it restarted with the new bios, but somehow couldnt boot up to windows..and on top of left there is only a dash flashing, its beein doin that for like almost 10 minutes!! crap
how do i resolve this??

 

Haha!

I guess I can't explain it then. It's all good

P.S. Nobody actually drinks that crap over here

 

help this guy out, I have no clue...

 

What happens when you flash back to A08? Have you tried it? If not, just get in the A08 from dell website, and flash the BIOS back to A08.. and see if everything is fine then.

If yes, then you would need to see why A09 is giving you problems.... I have no idea right now.. But may be searching around here in NBR might help.

 

he said he can't boot into windows... ...

 

But can't we boot from the Vista DVD? or boot in a safe mode???

 

thx for the responses..
im still stuck with it, i know i dont use the laptop that much, but i just dont want the problem argh.
i noticed that the bar at the bottom when it reached around 80% its slow down untill 100% and take about 30 second to finish it..after that its just the top dash flashing..argh when pressed F command still goes right trough the flashing dash
argh!

 

When booting, press F12 to get to the boot menu (at the BIOS screen). Select it to boot from the hard drive. Should work from here on out.

If not: Go into BIOS (F2?? I forget). Load default settings, save, and reboot.

 

Talked with a Dell tech rep just last week...he confirmed the A10 M1530 BIOS is "coming soon." No information on changes or fixes, though.

 

WOW thx bro, u saved my life, now i can get in to windows

 

Just updated to A09 and my temps have dropped at least 7 or 8 degrees, excellent

 

I agree with some folks here that Dell/nvidia should reissue new 8600m gt cards that are not faulty instead of giving us this band aid of a bios update. I bought this laptop for my GF, she plays FFXI quite a bit and her temps max on her GPU to 81 celcius, if she plays a graphic intensive game like Crysis it goes up to max 94 celcius. Funny thing is this laptop is only about 2 months old runs on the old A08 bios. Of course when she plays Crysis i make her put it on a laptop cooler to drop it down a bit, that doesnt help much as it still brings it up to around 92 celcius. I doubt this bios fix does much and is as effective as putting a m1530 with A08 bios on a laptop cooler. Really i would rather dell and nvidia SERIOUSLY replace faulty 8600m gt cards with non faulty ones.