bios upgrade

Discusses BIOS flashers and utilities from Award, AMI and Uniflash
Post Reply
norco1
New visitors - please read the rules.
Posts: 1
Joined: Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:25 am

installed new video card w/o graphic improvement. bios upgrade was suggested. attempt to upgrade bios with dell's 4500-Ao4.exe fails. opening msdos file creates a blicking curser without any further data . pressing key bumps up ntvdm.exe process to 100% . 1. is it risky updating bios 2. if recommended, where and how can i upgrade from original intel D845EPT2 model? please advise
Denniss
BIOS Guru
Posts: 3153
Joined: Thu Mar 21, 2002 8:16 pm
Location: Near Hannover (CEBIT) Germany
Contact:

You are limited to use Dell/s version of their Bios - usually Intel version does not work or dos not work reliable .
Make sure you follow the Bios Update instructions by Dell .

Usually these files try to create a bootable floppy neede for the update unless Dell has a Windows-based upgrade system
Post Reply