Vostro 1710 Bios Upgrade Issue

[Juan Garavaglia]

Brett:

I appreciate your answer, the issue is this notebook has no floppy drive.

To use that solution I should try some USB pendrive solution or a CD.

Any idea?

Thanks a lot

Juan

2008/11/30 Brett Ussher <breusshe at hotmail.com>:
> 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.
>
> -------
>
> 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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