Dell - Phoenix/EFI Manual Mod Thread

Discussion in 'BIOS Mod Requests. Post Requests Only' started by ssvetec, Jul 31, 2009.

  1. GATOPELOS

    GATOPELOS MDL Novice

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    Hello friend ... I know that you are using a modified A13 bios on your laptop dell precision nm6300 I descragado the file from the link but I do want to know how the installation of this bios, I have a dell M6300 precicion and a14 bios update I has brought problems of high temperatures but are only readings that expels cold air vents so the laptop crashes to reach 100 ° cc and the qualification of win7 is 5.0 and above was 5.9 core 2 Duo T7700 2.4 of speed I would like to know if the bios would solve this problem? if I can install it from windows or as I should? what is the difference with the A13 bios from the official page of ell. do not know much about these things and I will be thankful if you help me solve this problem I could not work from this update. Thanks for your reply.
     
  2. Netbanshee

    Netbanshee MDL Junior Member

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    The only difference with the modded bios I posted and the official file from Dell is the slic table was updated to 2.1. No other mods where made. I only post files that I've tested and successfully installed myself. The A14 bios update from Dell failed testing before any modding was done. Since it did not contain any useful changes I reverted to the earlier bios which I am currently running with Windows 7 64 Ultimate without any issues. By your description of the issues you are having I believe your experiencing hardware related issues and updating the bios will not help. You need to have an expert look at it.
     
  3. olnabe

    olnabe MDL Novice

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    Hi Guys,

    I have a D610 (actually only motherboard+CPU+RAM+external USB HDD). It is used as a small linux server. Since there is no internal HDD, every time I boot the machine, it shows "Internal HDD hard error!" , and asks to press F1 to continue. This is annoying, because I have to connect a keyboard in order to really boot up the machine.

    Could you please advise if it is possible to mod the BIOS to skip the internal HDD check. If it is, please help or show me the direction. Thanks a lot!
     
  4. LatinMcG

    LatinMcG Bios Borker

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    F2 .. disable hard disk .. off aka none.. if its an option in bios

    u could also checkout dell client configuration tool to do that
     
  5. GATOPELOS

    GATOPELOS MDL Novice

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    friend at the moment I have a working version a14 dell official addiction problemsbrought to me and so I would like to know how I can go back to version a12 without risk of damaging the laptop, if you can explain how I should perform the installation would be very grateful you again .
     
  6. Serg008

    Serg008 MDL BIOS/EFI Guru

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  7. Tito

    Tito Super Mod / Adviser
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  8. webssd

    webssd MDL Novice

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    Thanks Serg008 and Tito.... now the question is, which one to use? Any advice? I was able to download both of them.. one of them is from 2010, other is from feb 2012... leaning towards feb 2012
     
  9. Tito

    Tito Super Mod / Adviser
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    Anyone... you can use Serg008's mod so that it can be confirmed.
     
  10. webssd

    webssd MDL Novice

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    neither of the flashes are working... ssv2 seems to work but it won't activate even after applying the digital cert and changing to dell oem slp key... the other won't run under windows 7... gives error wanting admin privelages and I'm running as admin. Even tried enabling the built-in administrator account.

    Further research finds the following file for those having same issue:
    Dell XPS M140_A04_Dell21_DOS.rar

    Does anyone possibly have a copy of this? All links on rghost have been deleted.

    Thanks in advance!
     
  11. olnabe

    olnabe MDL Novice

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    There is not any option about hard disk in bios, only a non-configurable page displaying internal HDD information.
    Does the dell client configuration tool give more options to control the bios? I don't have a Windows installed, so cannot easily try the dell client configuration tool.