Please help!! Bios dump Dell Latitude E6430

[AMN servis]

Re: Please help!! Bios dump Dell Latitude E6430

Working bios dump.

[carrretero]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

I attached the Bios Dump of both eeproms (U52+U53) if anybody else needs it.
It recent Version A18 and does not contain a password.
It is from a Dell Latitude E6430 with integrated Intel Graphics. I don't know if this works with E6430 with Nvidia or AMD Graphics.

Thank you GrafZahl for the A18 dump. I have a second hand E6430 with A11 BIOS and have the same issue as you have described here and could not find a solution for that, at Dell support forum they did not have answers and there seems to be no-one else with this issue. Me I also thought it could be the Signed Update Firmware variable setting, however, as it cannot be reversed back to off once it has been set to on, I don't see how it can be verified.

The zip file you posted contains two files. I was expecting a single file to flash using fpt. Please can you tell me how can I use the two files to flash the BIOS?

Best Regards

[itrescuer]

Re: Please help!! Bios dump Dell Latitude E6430

thanks

[swanand]

Re: Please help!! Bios dump Dell Latitude E6430

thanks

[ruslan657]

Re: Please help!! Bios dump Dell Latitude E6430

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[TechGeek]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

Good solution there!

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

It is not possible to deactivate signed firmware update on the E6430 and newer models.
Anyway I solved my problems. I bought another E6430 updated it to A18, made a dump and flashed it on the one I had problems with. Worked as expected.

I attached the Bios Dump of both eeproms (U52+U53) if anybody else needs it.
It recent Version A18 and does not contain a password.
It is from a Dell Latitude E6430 with integrated Intel Graphics. I don't know if this works with E6430 with Nvidia or AMD Graphics.

[ala_borbe]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

do you have "signed firware update" in bios? if yes, disable it

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

I always have secure boot disabled.

[ala_borbe]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

Have you tried to disable secure boot and try again?

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

Unfortunately it does not. It just does a normal reboot, instead rebooting and starting the flash process.
I guess A18 will be the last Update for this model. If someone with a E6430 can send me a dump (should be possible with the software I attached) I can solve this with ease.

[ala_borbe]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

does it display any king of error message?

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

It does not work. It just does a normal reboot, when it is supposed to flash.
It does not help to add /f or /forceit suffix. Restoring Bios settings to default does not help either. It does not matter if I try to flash from Dos or Windows.
It does not work with Upgrade from A14 to A15, or directly A18.

[ala_borbe]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

flash a14 then update to a a18 with file from dell support

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

Thank you very much ridamouh159!
I allready found these files of yours in another thread. They are working perfect, but it is version A14 (correct me if I am wrong).
I was searching for A18.
Thank you anyway for your support and keep up the good work.

[ridamouh159]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

here is

[ridamouh159]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

Hallo

sie mussen
"trying with this dump "

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

I managed to Dump the Bios from Windows using Intels FTPW Programm (it creates one 12.6MB file, but this can be split).

Is there anyone with a Dell E6430 with recent Bios A18 who can help me?
I attached the FTPW Progamm, just unzip and execute dump.bat (I guess from command line, I did not try it from Windows Explorer, but it may work also) and upload the the file bios.bin it creates?

[ala_borbe]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

As far as i know its not posible to dump reliably any way other than programmer
Did you try to clean %temp% and run flash?
Somerimes flasher there create folder with .fd file and that can be used to extract files

[GrafZahl]

Re: Dell E6430 Dump of A18 Bios

Flashing the HDR File while pressing "end" does not work. Either because it is not the proper HDR file, the filename is wrong, or because the signed firmware feature prevents this. Maybe this method does not work anymore anyway.

The /writeromfile /writehdrfile does not work anymore since quite a while.

Is it possible to dump the two Eeproms (8MB+4MB) from windows/linux using software? RWEverything or something like this?