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    Urgent HELP !! Dell studio 1450 bios update from A05 to A06....DEAD

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by pmzen39, Jul 14, 2011.

  1. pmzen39

    pmzen39 Newbie

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    Hello friends

    My laptop i.e. DELL studio 1450 has hung up when I tried to update its BIOS from A05 to A06. The light in the power button is constantly blinking. It hung while erasing the piece no. 9 . Now it has hung up and is not giving any response. When I pressed the power button and held it for some time, then too nothing happened. My laptop is out of warranty. Please help me what to do. Its urgent.

    Thanx & regards
    Pravin
     
    pmzen39, Jul 14, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Ya unfortunately AFAIK there no fix besides buying a new motherboard or desoldering the BIOS chip and resoldering on another one. One reason not to do BIOS flashes when you are out of warranty.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 14, 2011
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    pmzen39 Newbie

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    its fine ..... i get it that I did it wrong but is there any method do to do the wrong right again by blind BIOS flash or something like that
     
    pmzen39, Jul 15, 2011
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    conker2008 Newbie

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    Its not what you want to hear, but, unfortunately not other than already said, new board or new bios chip (that is if you can get hold of one), only other idea would be looking on ebay for one with a broken screen or simular that up can use for parts.

    It happened to me some time ago with a tower when I had a power spike during a bios flash and since then have always been wary.

    Sorry to not have good news but on the bright side, you do own a very impressive paperweight
     
    conker2008, Jul 15, 2011
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  5. pmzen39

    pmzen39 Newbie

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    I know i've messed up big time but isn't there any way that could recover my system
     
    pmzen39, Jul 15, 2011
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  6. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    As the other two have said, there is pretty much nothing you can do at this point. I've heard people talking about blind flashes for Dell, but I've never heard of one completed successfully. I do not believe it is possible.
     
    Commander Wolf, Jul 15, 2011
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    here is a post that says that its possible....... the only problem is that whenever I try to extract the ROM file ........... its not getting extracted.

    Whenever I try to extract the file from the 1450_A05.exe or 1450_A06.exe, these bios files just start in gui and start showing errors

    if you could plz extract the file for me then I could try to recover for good

    The links to download bios files are :

    http://ftp.dell.com/bios/1450_A05.exe

    http://downloads.dell.com/bios/1450_A05.exe
     
    pmzen39, Jul 17, 2011
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