[PLUG] Dell Latitide BIOS upgrades [UPDATED]

[wes]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > 0 upon a time I had a 128M thumb drive with a version of DOS on it
> > which upgraded the E5410's BIOS. I cannot find that flash drive now and
> need
> > to make another one.
>
>    Aha! I found the drive. It's 4G, not 128M, but that's OK. Loaded the two
> new BIOS files and the contents of the drive now are:
>
> 070830s.ROM*  COMMAND.COM*                       MSDOS.SYS*
> AFUDOS.EXE*   DOS Flash Utility User Guide.pdf*  UCOREW64.SYS*
> AFUWIN.EXE*   E5410A16.exe*                      Ucoredll.dll*
> BOOTLOG.PRV*  IO.SYS*                            Ucoresys.sys*
> BOOTLOG.TXT*  M2100A06.exe*                      Ucorevxd.vxd*
>
>    I assume that after booting the portable, I insert the drive in a USB
> port, mount the thumb drive, and (with the thumb drive as the cwd) at the
> command line enter afudos.exe ... or do I just invoke the new BIOS .exe
> file? It's been about 6 years since I upgraded the E5410's BIOS so I don't
> remember how to do it.
>
>    Clue stick needed.
>
> Rich
>

copy E5410A16.exe and M2100A06.exe to the flash drive. then, boot to the
flash drive. then, execute the exe which matches the model number of the
system you're working on currently.

-wes