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My DELL BIOS story of woe on a XPS-8930 SE running W10 Pro
Hi all -
What's worse than not creating a complete restorable backup of your system?
Well, there are many things but this story is a real good one.
A couple of days ago, I was prompted in a valid technical email to me by DELL (also verified it on the website) of a critical BIOS update.
Downloaded it easily from their website and checked the hash. Everything looked fine and I proceeded to install it.
Everything looked normal to the second (and final) reboot where it left me stuck at the DELL logo. No movement.
Waited a few minutes with no change. The bloody update (1.1.27) corrupted my BIOS and was bricked.
Tried several things to no avail. Contacted DELL and told them the story. A new motherboard was sent out.
Installed the new one and updated the BIOS to the previous revision (i.e. before 1.1.27).
Everything is OK now.
However, being that it is a DELL (OEM) and not my other desktop system - a Gigabyte motherboard with a switchable BIOS - it was essentially dead.
Did some research and found a brief article about a homebrew device with vague details of using the USB port to re-flash the BIOS.
No details or resources, just a commentary. No person to contact.
Does anyone know of a proven way to restore the BIOS on a bricked computer?
Obviously, they have this capability at DELL to do this.
That new BIOS release was out for 48 hours and I'm very reluctant to try it again.
I look forward to reading your responses.
Many thanks!