Hi,
i have an DELL XPS 13 9310 to repair.
It's mainly a Gen 11th I7 with 32GB of RAM.
The error is that it flashes 2x amber and 4x white, which indicates a RAM Error according to dell.
I had a dell logo and wasn't able to access BIOS menu.
I measured the the surroundings of the RAM and used a thermal camera to see anything abnormal. I couldn't find an issue.
So I decided to re-flash the BIOS, because it has no BIOS battery and the use case of the laptop, i wanted to eliminate a kind of corrupt BIOS.
I desoldered the BIOS chip and made a few backups and made md5sum cross-comparision.
I made a BIOS request here: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...30#post3482330
hoaca388 kindly provided a BIOS Image. During the soldering, i killed accidently the chip, I removed it again and wanted to check its content, but the chip doesn't respond to ID checks.
The BIOS Chip is/was a XMC25QH256B
The problem is that these chips are hard to source. Is it possible to replace the chip with a Winbond W25Q256FVEx / W25Q256JV Type?
I am happy with each comment.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards, Diego
i have an DELL XPS 13 9310 to repair.
It's mainly a Gen 11th I7 with 32GB of RAM.
The error is that it flashes 2x amber and 4x white, which indicates a RAM Error according to dell.
I had a dell logo and wasn't able to access BIOS menu.
I measured the the surroundings of the RAM and used a thermal camera to see anything abnormal. I couldn't find an issue.
So I decided to re-flash the BIOS, because it has no BIOS battery and the use case of the laptop, i wanted to eliminate a kind of corrupt BIOS.
I desoldered the BIOS chip and made a few backups and made md5sum cross-comparision.
I made a BIOS request here: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...30#post3482330
hoaca388 kindly provided a BIOS Image. During the soldering, i killed accidently the chip, I removed it again and wanted to check its content, but the chip doesn't respond to ID checks.
The BIOS Chip is/was a XMC25QH256B
The problem is that these chips are hard to source. Is it possible to replace the chip with a Winbond W25Q256FVEx / W25Q256JV Type?
I am happy with each comment.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards, Diego