Dell: Is there anyway to update bios without battery installed?

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by catdog215, Jun 3, 2010.

  1. catdog215

    catdog215 MDL Senior Member

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    #1 catdog215, Jun 3, 2010
    Hi all,

    Please help me on updating bios for Inspiron 1525. Since inspiron battery is dead, no longer charging, i cannot update modded bios with just a charger. Every time i do an update, error pop up saying battery need to be 10% or higher to update bios. This is a window bios update. Is there anyway to update bios without battery installed? if so, please guide me.

    Thanks
     
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    catdog215 MDL Senior Member

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    #2 catdog215, Jun 7, 2010 (OP)
    I guess i can't update without install battery that y no answer :sad:
     
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  3. neon1

    neon1 MDL Novice

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    #3 neon1, Jun 7, 2010
    See this.. add /forceit command in Dos

    View this link

    club.myce.com/f7/how-update-bios-dell-laptops-without-battery-260714/
     
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    catdog215 MDL Senior Member

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    #4 catdog215, Jun 8, 2010 (OP)
    thank you neon1. you're a saver. i will read it.
     
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    catdog215 MDL Senior Member

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    #5 catdog215, Jun 9, 2010
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  6. Cadillac84

    Cadillac84 MDL Novice

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    #6 Cadillac84, Apr 11, 2013
    Worked for me! Thanks very much. (April 2013)

    I was lucky enough to have a floppy drive that I could attach using USB and the A04 BIOS of my B120 accepted it as a boot device.

    So, I simply formatted a 1.44 MB diskette (Remember what those are? LOL) and selected the option to create a bootable DOS diskette.

    When that was concluded, I copied M051A08.EXE onto the floppy and restarted the computer.

    The switches "/forceit" and "/nvram" were accepted and my BIOS update was accomplished without a hitch.

    Computer actually belongs to someone else and I was happy to not have to sell the idea of a new battery for such an old computer. Now the BIOS is up to date; Dell is very unlikely to add any newer versions. A few more files to add and a complete virus scan and I'll be ready to return the beast to its owner.

    For a seven year old computer with only a Celeron and only 512 GB RAM ---- well, I wouldn't trade mine for this one, but it isn't bad.

    Thanks again for the very fine tip about the forcing switches.