![]() I’ll type out exactly what I did, in case others need help.ġ) Find a USB stick. I’m also posting a link to it and I do suggest you use it.īy combining tips from all the comments here I was able to bring my 1340 back from the dead. Special thaks go out to Andrew (BULFORCE G M A I L C O M) for the archive he put together. Once the flashing is completed the machine will restart and boot. Once the led stops blinking the actual flashing will be performed. If your usb stick has a led indicating activity this should be blinking for about 2~3 minutes. This will power on the laptop and make it search for a valid PHLASH16.EXE and BIOS.WPH on the usb stick. Press the End key, plug the power and release the END key. ![]() Remove the battery from your Dell and unplug the power chord. Rename your ROM file to BIOS.WPH and place it on the usb stick along with PHLASH16.EXE (phoenix flash utility) and MINIDOS.SYS (from minidos).ĥ. Not FAt32, not NTFS just plain old FAT.Ĥ. Grab a usb stick (try to find an old one that only shows as a single drive) and format it to FAT. ![]() This results in a file called 1340_A11.ROM being placed in the same folder as the 1340_A11.exe file.ģ. ![]() Extract the rom image from that file by using the following command line switch: /WriteRomFile (that means run the following command: 1340_A11.exe /WriteRomFile). Head to Dell support and download the latest bios. The notebook presented the notorious blocking problem that the XPS 1340 has and I tried a bios update that froze half way through, rendering the machine inoperable. I’ve recently had the pleasure to brick a friend’s XPS 1340.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |