Latitude D610 request - fix for 137GB BIOS limit

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by LATD610_please, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. urie

    urie retired mod

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  2. towermax

    towermax MDL Novice

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    Do you have a newer link to download the D610 A51 SLIC BIOS? SendSpace says it's not available.
     
  3. towermax

    towermax MDL Novice

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    #104 towermax, Feb 19, 2014
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    Thank you! Worked perfectly!
     
  4. justindandurand

    justindandurand MDL Novice

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    i also have the dell latitude 610 i tried your bios an when it tried to update it just shut down
     
  5. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    The link is updated. Thanks!
     
  6. ExtremelyFancyUsername

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    *resurrects dead thread*

    Can I use this BIOS for a Precision M20 considering it's D610 based?
     
  7. kaljukass

    kaljukass MDL Guru

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    This is difficult to say because the originals are different
    Name: D610-A05.exe
    Size: 647464 bytes (632 KiB)
    SHA1: D8F95961868FFAF7EB222A03753AE34D5CE27B09

    Name: M20-A05.exe
    Size: 647476 bytes (632 KiB)
    SHA1: A9E3493D502F0E999EF5D24C8BF656EC1CB13252
     
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  8. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    #111 tqhoang, Oct 22, 2020
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    Not directly. We'd have to hack the header so it flashes correctly.

    We can only attempt at making a cross-flash BIOS if your M20 has integrated Intel graphics? IIRC, the Precision M20 only comes with ATI Mobility FireGL V3100.
     
  9. ExtremelyFancyUsername

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    I don't have a M20 yet, but i'll keep it in mind when I do.
     
  10. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    These old laptops are really slow and limited to 2GB RAM, so I wouldn't recommend you go out and purchase one.
     
  11. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    Curios, why did you crossflash the D800 onto your M60? It appears that Dell kept the M60 A09 BIOS updated with the same fixes/changes as the D800 A13.

    M60 A09 == D800 A13
    M60 A08 == D800 A12
    M60 A07 == D800 A11
    etc.
     
  12. ExtremelyFancyUsername

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    Really? So the M60 A09 BIOS is identical to the D800 A13 BIOS? Interesting, so there's no point in flashing the A13 D800 BIOS even though it should be newer.
     
  13. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    99% sure the BIOS are identical aside from the model number strings. Dell did this a lot with their Latitude D8xx and Precisions M6x[xx] back in the day.

    Hardware-wise they offered slightly different video cards, but the BIOS would contain all the VBIOS Option ROMs.
     
  14. ExtremelyFancyUsername

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    Can confirm, i'm running the A13 Latitude C840 BIOS on my M50. It does show up properly as Precision M50 though.
     
  15. ExtremelyFancyUsername

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    I found a M20 at last for my ever expanding Precision collection, can you make me a LBA48 BIOS @tqhoang?
     
  16. tqhoang

    tqhoang MDL BIOS Modder

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    Sorry what I did only works with the D610 with integrated Intel graphics, not with the ATI graphics...hence it won't work with the M20.