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GroundZero, on Jun 18 2009, 06:29 PM, said:

This worked for me too, just got the BIOS update from dell. It was easy.

For any of you that don't want to mess with the BIOS, don't worry, you don't have to. When you get the BIOS update you just save the program to your desktop then run it from there. It reboots your computer and does everything automatically, you just sit back and watch your computer reboot, that's all there is. I had one problem, to run the program I had to right click on it and choose "run as administrator".

Here are the instructions from Dell (click here to go to Dell):
Download file to Desktop

The file Win1501263.EXE is using the Universal (Windows/ DOS) format and is designed to be directly executed from Windows environment.
1. Click Download now.
The File Download window appears.
2. Click the Save button.
The Save As window appears.
3. Select Desktop using the drop-down menu to the right of Save in.
4. Click the Save button.
A progress meter moves as the download is completed.
5. If necessary, click X in the upper right-hand corner of the Download Progress Window to close it upon completion.

NOTE: Shut down all other applications prior to running the BIOS update utility. The update utility reboots your system in order to get the new BIOS loaded.

Run the BIOS update utility from Windows environment

1. Double click the Icon on your desktop labeled Win1501263.EXE.
The Dell BIOS Flash window appears
2. Click the Continue button.
The message Pressing OK will close all applications, shut down Windows, Flash the BIOS, then reboot. appears.
3. Click the OK button.
The system will restart and the BIOS Flash will be completed.

See, it's that easy.

the "using up my battery until the the screen would black out" solution didn't work for me. My battery's completely dead and won't charge and I tried to flash the bios but it tells me it can't because it needs at least 10% power on the battery...

What else could I do?