Flash Bios / Without Windows

[jtgurkin]

I have a computer that is having BIOS issues. I need to flash the updated bios from dell DME521-010111.EXE The problem is that the computer won't boot, but the program won't run to flash the bios without windows xp.

Can someone please provide assistance?

 

[kjv1611]

Most if not all BIOS allow you to flash from the BIOS. Are you able to get to the BIOS settings?

Also, I'd look to see if there is a bootable version of your flash program.

Another option would be, I suppose, to boot from a Windows PE disk. There are a lot of tutorials on the web to tell you how to basically load Windows XP from a CD.

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[kjv1611]

Hmm, not the best terminology I used in the last one. When I say there are a lot of tutorials that tell how to load Windows.... I mean something more like: How to make a bootable Windows CD... something like that.. Basically a Live CD of Windows, or a variant of Windows which runs 100% from your CD drive, like many Linux distros do.

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[danomac]

I second the BIOS option. If it is in your BIOS, all you need is a USB-key with the flash file on it.

Manufacturers lately have been putting that in the BIOS on some boards, and I say it's about darn time.

 

[BadBigBen]

The DME521-010111.EXE file is a container, self-extracting exe, that creates the FLASH software and the BIOS file

or it creates a FLOPPY for flashing...

with that FLOPPY (or with the files transferred to a bootable floppy disk) you can boot and flash the BIOS...

since we do not know what model you have, these instructions are just generalized...

excerpt from How to Update the BIOS on a Dell Inspiron

You may have to unzip the file if it comes in a compressed state. (Just double click on it to unzip.) Each BIOS update will differ somewhat but generally it will instruct you how to insert a floppy disk to create a bootable BIOS disk, and then instruct you to shut down the computer and boot it up with the BIOS disk in the drive. This will cause the computer to boot from the floppy disk that will install the new BIOS update.

I would like to add, you have not told us what issue you are having, e.g. what BIOS issue are you having in the first place?

as FLASHING the BIOS may not be what you need to begin with!

Ben
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