Would anyone happen to know the right codes to rename the HDR files for a Dell Latitidue D520 and a D630? Been trying to use winhex on the rom/bin but the results are gibberish.
D520 SHEL?à. BIN.. HDR = SHELAxx.HDR D630 BRIS?à.0BIN.. HDR = BRISAxx.HDR Axx is the version (use older as sometimes new would not recover and USB port and device brand can matter.. sandisk works for sure) recovery steps Unplug battery and ac power cord and HDD. plug in USB flash hold END and Power button while plugin in power cord (power button is optional sometimes) let the battery LED flash orange green for 1 to 2 minutes.. when done it shutsdown/restart auto. HxD has a search bug.. have to click under the last highlighted result then search again to continue with second result the names come from the Motherboard Codename from dell. BRISbane is one i know so if u search for Schematics D630 u see the boardname on schematics.. same as HDR but shorter.
Thanks for the help. No luck unfortunately. Either my USB key is not compatible (it does have an activity LED that only lights when I insert the power jack and release the end key. nothing after that) or the file names might need to be different? I have tried your suggestions with older bios files (A01 for the D520 and A12 for the D630) and the wild card route with SHEL123, BRIS123 etc, but both laptops just keep going with the red/green led and fans full blast. No shut down and obviously no recovery. For the D520 I also tried my D-Bay 3/5" floppy drive as the bios file is smaller and still no luck (directly in the doick and by USB as well). Am I missing something or are both boards knackered?
how did u get the .HDR file? did u use CMD to the D630_A0x.exe /writehdrfile ? or did u just rename the exe to HDR ?? (wrong way) hold END Power button while pluggin in powercord.. take dvd drive out ?check ram. take 1 out .. try different ports get a sandisk cruzer 8gb at radioshack $8
I have been doing that with the end key when trying the procedure and I am using an 8gb Sandisk cruzer. I even reformatted it to a 100mb Fat16 partition to see if that might be the issue but still no luck.
fat32 plain 8gb works for me. try holding the power button and END while pluggin in power (no battery in). hold it 5 seconds or so.. maybe 8 if it dont work IN DIFFERENT USB PORTS, board has chip issues or ram
d630 isnt a bad one. check in support.dell.com the svctag to se what original config says on base system.. if its nvidia it needs reflow.
Ok, Just found out what I thought was a D630 is a D830 (doh!!). Does anyone have the right name code for that one?
drag bios.exe to cmd window then add to it /writehdrfile example D830_A13.exe /writehdrfile this will make it. then u can read with wordpad. DAWSxxx.HDR xxx= version like A13 DAWSA13.HDR
Hello, I'm trying to recover a dell N7110, I tried most methods (the phoenix crisis recovery with the end key trick) but it won't work the power and internet adapter leds turn on as well as the fan and it reads the usb with the recovery files but just briefly and then keeps turned on with the fan running and it does not restart until I press the power button. I tried the end key method but the battery led won’t turn red no matter what I do (In fact it doesn’t turn on at all). I extracted the BIOS1.wph from the %temp% directory from the winflash installer renamed it to the default BIOS.wph and copied it to the flash drive after formatting with the miniDOS, according to all the guides I’ve been reading it should work but it doesn’t. can you help me please?
its a phoenix EFI.. BIOS.WPH ? try version A05 or A07 .. read the Fixes in the description on the page for A05
Hello, everyone I am owner of Dell Latitude E6400, which latest bios update A32 decided to fail at 90% and randomly shut down my computer. This has lead to bricked computer, no POST screen from bios. I have tried the method which is mentioned in the first post of this thread, have successfully unpacked the hdr files and renamed them accordingly to this string: Dell Latitude E6400 : RSH????.bin, RSH????.hdr, RSH????.hdc, E6400??.bin, E6400??.hdr So I have tried HDR files on different USB sticks with names like: RSH A32.HDR RSH_A32.HDR RSHA32.HDR E6400A32.HDR E640032.HDR (should be only correct one from the strings in OP) However, the USB doesn't get loaded. I have tried 3 different sticks. Have even made a partition on the smaller one to make it even smaller. The USB stick turns on for a second when the electricity goes through it but thats all, no data is being read from it. I have tried all USB holes with all file names I can possibly think. I have also tried different bios version with their extracted HDR files. It checks for the CD, I also have put the same files with according names on a CD, nothing seems to happen besides some small reading. I have no idea what it is looking for there. So I am currently getting myself USB-Floppy reader (this seems to be a common recommendation in this thread) and the question which hasn't been answered in this thread is following: How do you exactly fit a HDR file which is 3.5mb big on a floppy which is 1.4mb?? Also, are the file names correct which I have made in bold?
u dont just plug it in.. u take battery out.. hold the key END while pluggin in power AND power button press. this file should work RSHA32.HDR however try different versions of bios.. not all recover. floppy is not needed.
Thanks for your reply. I indeed didn't specify before but I am starting it up in recovery mode. The battery is removed, USB is inserted before AC is connected. I hold the end key, plug AC - release the end key while the battery led is flashing in red colour and then it boots up. However it does not seem to be loading any files from USB. Tried 256mb stick, 2gb stick and 8gb stick. I will go ahead and try with all bios versions then.
sometimes u hold power button and end before plugin in power does trick. in your case it is flashing battery led red green purple ?