Dear All
Dell offer an 0800 number in the UK to receive technical assistance. I
rang it. They looked at the problem and confirmed that:
1) there is no BIOS update offered for my laptop, N5030
2) that the BIOs update that I was using is for model M5030, which has
an AMD processor. Mine has an Intel processor
3) they are not going to offer a BIOS update for my laptop
Thanks to everyone for the assistance. I now know how to make a
bootable media and put files onto the media that I can see in that
enviroinment. That is going to be useful.
One question remains
a) does anyone know anyone who can write a BIOS for me?
Thanks and wait to hear
Stephanos
On 12/04/2021 15:07, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 15:57, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Probably many of these don't apply to FreeDOS. The boot menu (where
you saw the FDOS option) I think at least gives you the option of
pressing F8 to toggle single-stepping, which will ask you to answer yes
or no for each thing that tries to load. You could do this and just
answer N for everything, which although a bit tedious would achieve the
same result.
I guess the other thing, which I thought I had used with FreeDOS, is
to hold down Shift as DOS boots, which does the same as F5: skips
processing of CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT.
One other thing - the service tag you're using, that matches the
service tag shown in the F2 BIOS setup?
I thought something similar: there seem to be 3 variants of the D5030,
using Intel and AMD chips -- which must also mean a different
motherboard and chipset, as AMD and Intel chips do not work in each
other's motherboards or even fit into each other's sockets.
An Intel BIOS won't work in an AMD board, and an AMD BIOS won't work
on an Intel board.
For at least one variant, revision A02 looked to be the latest.
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