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    AW13 R2 BIOS 1.3.7

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Game7a1, Sep 13, 2016.

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    Game7a1, Sep 13, 2016
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    Bios update for Caldera????
     
    pathfindercod, Sep 14, 2016
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    Caldera is the graphics amp.
     
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    Lol I was thinking Linux....
     
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    Have it flashed. It seems stable. Will connect my Graphics Amp later today to see what were the changes.
     
    Game7a1, Sep 14, 2016
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    S4 is just a sleep profile. I doubt you're going to see anything on the end-user experience.
     
    scottdrmyers, Sep 14, 2016
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    There were reports that the GA did stay on even though the laptop was asleep. I wonder if that got fixed (I don't know if it happened with my laptop + GA personally, though).
    Sometimes, Dell does do changes in new BIOS revisions without noting them.
     
    Game7a1, Sep 14, 2016
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    Here we go again :|

    Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
     
    DrewN, Sep 16, 2016
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    I would like for someone else to confirm this.
    A difference between 1.3.6 and 1.3.7: no Hibernation option when using the GA. Sleep is still there, but Hibernation is not.
     
    Game7a1, Sep 25, 2016
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    Sometimes, the sleep option can disappear when using this BIOS. I'm not sure why, though.
     
    Game7a1, Sep 27, 2016
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