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Dell Latitude D830 NOT upgrading BIOS

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:25 am
by jdavis10
I have a D830 running Windows 7 32-bit.

I have read all over google that people have managed to apply the A15 BIOS upgrade, but i cant.
I get the error message : "This BIOS does not support the level of hardware in this system."

The only thing i am concerned about is that in Dxdiag my system model comes up as a D820, buts its not :/.

Tried update in compatibility mode (Windows Vista + Run as Admin)

Any ideas?

Thanks

Re: Dell Latitude D830 NOT upgrading BIOS

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:01 pm
by edwin
what version are you running right now?

Re: Dell Latitude D830 NOT upgrading BIOS

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:58 pm
by jdavis10
A09

Re: Dell Latitude D830 NOT upgrading BIOS

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:38 am
by noel-man4
jdavis10, are you absolutely sure you are using a Dell Latitude D830 and not D820?
Go to the Dell support site, click on Drivers & Downloads section, enter the Service Tag number of your Dell Latitude laptop to obtain specific BIOS downloads for your laptop.

Latest Latitude D820 BIOS is version A10.
Latest Latitude D830 BIOS is version A15.

AND if you can't "flash" the Latitude BIOS in Windows, try flashing it in pure DOS mode by booting from an MSDOS boot floppy disk or boot cd. Make one from Bootdisk.com.