Also if you have a bootable usb flash drive you can stick the latest bios on there and run it instead of CD. I have never corrupted a bios doing it that way.
Well yes in hindsight that should have been what I did.
One thing we should all learn from this is that if you don't have a problem then leave bios updates alone.
With a recent new build of mine, I had to update the bios as it had compatibility problems with my Ram. I updated that with no problems from within Windows using software I downloaded from the Gigabyte website. Looks like Dell messed up here, I wonder if they will remove the update.
I bet the Dell technician will be worn out travelling all the way from India
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I have read:
Windows 3.11 for Dummies
Windows 95 for Dummies (Second Chapter)
One thing we should all learn from this is that if you don't have a problem then leave bios updates alone.
With a recent new build of mine, I had to update the bios as it had compatibility problems with my Ram. I updated that with no problems from within Windows using software I downloaded from the Gigabyte website. Looks like Dell messed up here, I wonder if they will remove the update.
I bet the Dell technician will be worn out travelling all the way from India
And Philgo wins the money Sam was from India.
He rang me at 9.01am and said will you be home today and I said that my wife would be.
He said "I'll be there between 1pm and 3 pm".
At 1.30pm he rings me and says "how late can I come there" and when I say "that's up to you", he says "I'll be there at 3.30pm".
According to my wife he turned up at 5.30pm.
She said he hardly spoke English, was rude and seemed like he didn't have a clue.
When she asked him if we would lose any data he said "I don't know, hopefully not" - that was my worst fear that he would wipe the drives or something.
He called me on my mobile at 6.00pm whilst I was on the bus and said "Did you have Windows98 on your PC becuase it's hanging".
I say "No, that's on the 2nd drive and I can't get it to install. XP is on the first drive".
He says "OK I'll change the drive boot sequence in the BIOS". So basically he's reconnected the drives in the wrong order, luckily they are SATA.
When I got home at about 6.15pm he'd left.
The PC was on and in XP
After helping getting the boys to bed, I logged on and immediately notice that my card reader was not showing up - I shutdown, opened the box and saw that the cable was left unconnected at one end.
I swapped the HD cables around whilst I was in there and got into the BIOS which is now back at 1.0.03 and swapped the HD boot sequence back.
Happy days.
Last edited by Nix; February 12th, 2007 at 08:55 AM.
As a matter of interest did he do a good job by tidying the wiring etc. or was it just thrown in.
Philgo is on a roll, the wiring was semi thrown in I think that's how the card reader became disconnected. It was disconnected at the reader itself not on the USB connection on the mobo.
If I didn't know better Philgo has some inside information on these Dell technicians.
Also my wife told me that at one stage he was holding the case in his hands and tipping it from side to side and something was rattling around.
Apparently when he showed up my wife told him he was late and he said "I rang you to tell you I was coming" and she said "that was an hour ago from somewhere that is 10 minutes drive away".
He said "I was delayed" to which she replied "well you originally told my husband you'd be here between 1 and 3", he replied "I called him" she said "yes when it was already 1.30pm".
He said "I was delayed, anyway it's fixed now, sign here".
She said "I'm not signing anything until I've checked to make sure it's working".
He said "It is I've tested it".
She said "Oh right I heard you asking my husband if we had Windows98, why was that ?".
He said "Doesn't matter it's fixed now".
She quickly checked she could log in and started up the modem to make sure email was working etc, then she signed and he left.
She later said to me "You should have got Dell to courier the motherboard out to you, you could have replaced it I'm sure.
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