Friday, April 16, 2010

Dell D830 BIOS Update

After banging my head against a Dell D830 laptop for a number of hours, I discovered a solution to the BIOS not updating due to a low battery. If you try to update the BIOS on a Dell laptop with an aftermarket battery or power supply, it's likely to fail. Mutiple Google searches didn't turn up much. One site displayed a bunch of information on how to hack and decrpyt the exe. At the bottom of the page a notation about a switch for the BIOS exe provided the solution. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, the /forceit switch allows the BIOS updater to ignore the checks for battery and power supply.

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