Dell XPS 13 9310 - Repair

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  • Diego Eloren
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    • Jan 2024
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    • Albania

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    Dell XPS 13 9310 - Repair

    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
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    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

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