Nope. no go. The boot block must have been erased as well. I have found quite a few reports of the same problem with the same model (Dell Vostro...
Thanks for the pointers. Haven't tried Ctrl+Home yet. Will give it a try tonight.
Thanks urie, did't find that post. The question for me is still how to 'Then run "AFU877 713D1P51.BIN BACKUP.BIN" '. The computer doesn't seem to...
Extract binary BIOS file from Dell EXE (Vostro 410) Not sure where to put this, but though I’d write it down in case it helps anyone out there....