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    What Can I Do?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by CammedCamaro, Nov 15, 2009.

  1. CammedCamaro

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    Okay, Here's the Deal. I own a Dell Inspiron 9300. Currently I'm wanting to flash the bios to the latest for the Dell XPS M170 (Same mobo). However, on this particular laptop, the charging port broke off once before and was replaced. After the replacement jack was soldered onto the mobo; It would never charge or even "see" the battery in the bios or OS. The bios also had the idiot error about an incorrect power supply being used during boot even though I tried using 3 different DELL power bricks. So of course, I just hit F3 and away that went. :D Well, now that I'm wanting to upgrade the video card in this laptop, I've ran into 1 problem. Without a battery being "installed", the program will not let me run it until it sees a "battery". Is there anyway of spoofing a battery or bypassing the start-up process of the bios update?

    Obviously, I could just have the jack replaced properly, buy a new battery, or even go as far as a new mobo but I'm kinda on a STRICT budget here having an 8 month old baby girl and I'd rather spend that money on her and get me the video card upgrade. :eek:

    I do use this laptop everyday, or almost; so I know there's really nothing wrong with it other than the fact that I simply have to plug it in to use it, which I'm okay with.

    So what do ya think? Am I stuck? Or is there some great way to bypass this? Thanks guys.

    BTW, I know this is my first post here but I'm not exactly a noob so please, if you can't help me or even speculate on some ideas for me to attempt, please don't start anything. I'm just looking for somewhere to begin.

    Oh yea, I DO have a battery for it... Just can't get it to be realized by the BIOS or OS. However, I'm not above cutting this sucker up and applying some voltage here or there to jumpstart this badboy. I just need to figure out how much and where... Or even use a jumper to the terminals for the battery on the MOBO until I get the BIOS flashed. :cool:

    Also, if anyone has diagrams on this MOBO and/or battery that might even help me figure out the terminals and what they actually do...

    Thanks guys.
     
    CammedCamaro, Nov 15, 2009
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