Vostro 1710 Bios Upgrade Issue

[Brett Ussher]

You probably need to use the biosdisk project. Here is a previous
posting to this listserv with the webpage you need:

This system is not supported by firmware-tools at the moment. You can
use biosdisk (http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk) to make a
bootable object (grub entry, CD, floppy, ...) using the .exe BIOS installer
as posted on support.dell.com for Windows.

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This should help you with your updates. It is what I have to use and it
works great (I use Linux Mint, which is based on the Ubuntu distro).

Brett D. Ussher



Juan Garavaglia wrote:
> I own a Vostro 1710
>
> I use Ubuntu
>
> When I recieved the system the Bios was A02.
>
> I need to pugrade to A10 (there is the update .exe for windows systems
> to that version)
>
> My getSystemId shows:
>
> Libsmbios:    2.0.3
> System ID:    0x0275
> Service Tag:  BVCZFG1
> Express Service Code: 25840865521
> Product Name: Vostro1710
> BIOS Version: A02
> Vendor:       Dell Inc.
> Is Dell:      1
>
> Unfortunatelly in http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bios-hdrs/dup/
> the HRD for my system is missing.
>
> Also doing an "update_firmware" I get an "Did not find a newer package
> to install that meets all installation checks."
>
> How can I get the correct .hdr or install using the windows
> V1710A10.exe under Linux enviromen (forget wine)
>
> Regards
>
> Juan
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