@ boggleboggle, you could just download Andyp's AMI bios modding tool and do the mod yourself just use the default settings it is very easy to use.
I do motherboard component level repairs I can repair almost any motherboard even liquid damage. This is the problem on Dell D600 D610 1525 1526 laptops have a chip on the motherboard and one in the charger. when one of these chips go bad the computer will say unable to determine battery/charger and this system will not charge the battery. Everything works perfect but will not see one or the other. This is what I know the chip I know where it is and I have bought new ones but there is no way to program it with the data Dell puts on it. There has to be something in the bios that can be deleted so the computer does not check for this. I have some people claim they flashed the bios with a newer version and the board worked perfect. I have downloaded the bios from Dell and when you try to flash it it says battery and charger must be present in order to flash. I have used winrar, 7zip, universal extractor and none of these will extract the .exe file. I opened the .exe with notepad and searched "battery" deleted the lines where it said check battery doit and battery must be present battery must be fully charged and saved it but then it will not run any longer. These laptops are winding up in landfills just over not charging the battery. Dell makes customers buy their charger then this does not fix it then they make them buy a battery this does not work then they try to sell them a MB for $300 I know that a bios mod would fix this and put these laptops back to use instead of going to the landfills. Anyhow if someone can figure this out or let me know what to use to extract the files from the .exe I would appreciate it.
Thank you so much. I just found Dell mini 9 bois ao6 online and want to update with slic 2.1 in my book. Thank again.
I just did this and it did flash the bios but I had a feeling Dell did not take the battery type check out and people were just getting lucky by this making it see the battery again. There is a chip inside the charger it looks for if this is not there or working it says can not identify charger. There is also a chip on the MB for identifying the battery if this goes bad it will say no battery present. I am sure someone that knows how to edit bios can delete this check and the laptop will charge. should be the same as removing the white list on HP laptops to run different WIFI cards
Gx280 2.1 slic Hello Members I'm searching a working BIOS with 2.1 SLIC for my Dell Optiplex GX 280 It's a Phoenix Bios, i know. Thanks you if you can help me win7expert