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    M1730 bios flash with no battery

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by chrisc007, Jul 21, 2010.

  1. chrisc007

    chrisc007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone know if it's possible to flash the XPS M1730 bios without a battery, or a drained battery? The mobo has been doing wierd things the past couple of weeks and I hoped a bios flash might sort the problems (or at least some of them). The latest problem is the battery not charging hence the question - my battery is now as flat as a fart!
     
    chrisc007, Jul 21, 2010
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    chrisc007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any ideas?

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    chrisc007, Jul 26, 2010
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    jamserver2004 Notebook Enthusiast

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    sounds like your logic board has gone bad, does it turn on without the battery on ac power?
     
    jamserver2004, Jul 29, 2010
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    chrisc007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    It started by not recognising the dell adapter which, of course, stops it from charging the battery (hence the question). Then it started freezing up after about 1/2 hour use (it wasn't overheating, just freezing). Once frozen it refused to boot again for at least 24 hours.

    Someone on another forum had a similar freezing/booting problem and said that a bios flash fixed the problem for him. However, as I have the adapter problem as well, the battery is now flat and you can't flash the bios when the battery is less than 10% or on mains power alone :confused: - don't know why?!? Just wondering if there's a way of bypassing the check and going straight to the flashing.
     
    chrisc007, Aug 5, 2010
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    atuwh Newbie

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    Threads a bit old now, bu in case anyone is wondering: run the flash program from the command line with the /forceit flag. E.g.:

    MXG7A11.EXE /forceit

    I also had to download a freedos livecd and run it from there, as it didn't work from windows for me.
     
    atuwh, Jan 26, 2011
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