Hi,
I've had an ssd that was previously used on dell xps 8960 and then it was installed in Alienware Aurora R15(intel version). On first windows boot in R15 windows started bios update and loaded bios for xps 8960(r15 and xps8960 essentially have same motherboards).
Now it has xps 8960 bios that looks different from alienware bios and when I'm trying to run bios update files for R15, I get unsupported platform error.
These models have AMI/Aptio BIOS.
Tried to edit product info with DMI Edit to change values back to Alienware R15, but it does not want to change values in “Type 011” OEM Strings fields(I did change other fields where it said Dell and XPS though).
I assume OEM Strings part is locked by dell or perhaps I need some other DMI edit util.
Maybe someone can mod dell bios installer to bypass model check to force R15 bios or integrate r15 bin in xps8960 bios update file?
Willing to pay.
Thanks
PS: Also tried to corrupt bios by powering off during bios update and then load r15 bios .rcv file using bios recovery(ctrl+esc), but still get invalid image error with r15 file and need to use 8960 file to recover.
I've had an ssd that was previously used on dell xps 8960 and then it was installed in Alienware Aurora R15(intel version). On first windows boot in R15 windows started bios update and loaded bios for xps 8960(r15 and xps8960 essentially have same motherboards).
Now it has xps 8960 bios that looks different from alienware bios and when I'm trying to run bios update files for R15, I get unsupported platform error.
These models have AMI/Aptio BIOS.
Tried to edit product info with DMI Edit to change values back to Alienware R15, but it does not want to change values in “Type 011” OEM Strings fields(I did change other fields where it said Dell and XPS though).
I assume OEM Strings part is locked by dell or perhaps I need some other DMI edit util.
Maybe someone can mod dell bios installer to bypass model check to force R15 bios or integrate r15 bin in xps8960 bios update file?
Willing to pay.
Thanks
PS: Also tried to corrupt bios by powering off during bios update and then load r15 bios .rcv file using bios recovery(ctrl+esc), but still get invalid image error with r15 file and need to use 8960 file to recover.
