yeah.. close enough honestly
at least it's not dead. thanks again!
icetech
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Last Activity: 02-05-2022, 12:50 PM
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Re: Alienware 17 r4 bios chip location?
yeah.. close enough honestly at least it's not dead. thanks again!
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Re: Alienware 17 r4 bios chip location?
yeah, found it this morning.. got it sorted thanks! seems flashing the wrong chip didn't do much.
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Re: Alienware 17 r4
Yup... BTW.. great forum I would actually like to learn how to extract bins from bios and stuff.. but more things waiting to get done.. this job has stressed me more than anything in years having a good day now though!
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Re: Alienware 17 r4
Laptop is back together.. and being an alienware a pain to take apart Customer was like F12 and hit enter? No problem at all.. guy is cool as hell..
Thank you a TON for the help. kinda wanna flash that one just to see... maybe..
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Thanks again Flea, you have been more than helpful One last newb question then i will stop And i'm pretty sure i already know this.. but having the wrong service tag in the new bios shouldn't matter correct? Like it won't see that service tag and enable or disable certain thing? OR.. when putting the new one that matches the real service tag of this laptop, if it sees the wrong service tag in the bios it will still overwrite it all as normal?
I'm 99% sure it's a full write no matter what, just want to make sure is all..
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Ah.. yeah i know what ME is, just didn't know how it applied to these bios files is all Thank you..
So the weird issue i'm having is if i hit F12 can choose the boot drive it will boot.. if i don't it shows the post screen and then turns off, waits a sec and turns back on. The bios is set to boot from the nvme first and it's a fresh setup of windows using uefi not csm..
BTW.. i looked but didn't see.. is there a way to donate to this forum? This is a customers laptop and he will be happy even if he has to f12 every boot. would...Leave a comment:
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SMD.. you are a hero.. so.. before i started all this i did research (although i'm sure it doesn't seem like it) and i asked on this forum and emailed alisaler and both times was pointed to the wrong chip. Found the 128 and flashed it and i am posting again but shuts off when it tries to read a HD to boot.. going to try some other flashes now that i know where the issue was. Thanks a ton!
P.S. i could google.. but lazy.. what is ME CLEAN?Leave a comment:
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Re: Alienware 17 r4 bios chip location?
Thanks Dura, yeah all of those are for the 128 chip where this is a 80, must have made multiple versions of this mobo.. will keep looking. and made a request in the request section thanks a ton.
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Thank you much. .and sorry for all the newb crap.. just a bit panicky on this one Here is the original recovery file..
And yeah.. bits/bytes.. grr
[url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/qb9o0ws9p5l3oz8/bios_cur.rcv?dl=0[/url]
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k.. will try to figure it out.. one thing i don't get is the chip itself when i google it is only 8meg.. how can it hold 16mb of info? unless people pointed me to the wrong chip but i got a pic from alisaler and a person on this forum also..Leave a comment:
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K.. not sure what to do then.. the file i posted as the bios dump is exactly what the flash program pulled from the chip which i did before i started tryign to fix it.. and the bios files i have downloaded like from alisaler are 1mb also.. Not arguing, just not sure what to do next.Leave a comment:
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I did try the files from Alisaler.. same issue.. BTW.. his files names are pretty much the same except like UT2 or UG15.. not sure what those designations mean. but my bios chip has UT2 under it so i assume that would be the proper one.Leave a comment:
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BTW.. i do have the original bios_img.rcv file from what's supposed to be the built in file recovery from this machine if that would help.Leave a comment:
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k give me a sec... the machine started a bios flash.. went black then sat there for like 10 mins then shut off.. i don't think the file will help much. gimme a min and thank you.
Here ya go.
[url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/h8bdqd3o28g25bn/bad%20bios.bin?dl=0[/url]
BTW.. i'm trying to learn how to do this for the future if i need it.. when dell flashes a bios does it only flash the bios chip or can it screw something else? i have tried 4 different bios files supposedly for this mobo and got the same result.Re: Alienware 17 r4...Last edited by icetech; 07-06-2020, 02:17 PM.Leave a comment:
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Alienware 17 r4
Hello.. i had posted in another thread about bios for this mobo and a nice person posted the file but i don't believe it's the proper one for my board.. When i go to flash it, it says the file is too big for the chip..
[URL="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=85828"]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=85828[/URL]
So.. i did a search found a webpage with 5 more bins to try, but no joy.. same cpu not detected issue which i know is the bios since it died during the bios flash originally.
Here is a copy...Last edited by icetech; 07-06-2020, 02:09 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Alienware 17 r4 bios chip location?
Programmer showed up, tried the file above but no post, no beeping at least, but the power LED is showing unknown CPU..
They made this laptop with a kaby and skylake cpus.. think i need to find a different bios file.Leave a comment:
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Re: Alienware 17 r4 bios chip location?
Thank you sooo much! I feel much better about this now.. i searched everywhere trying to find pics of where the bios is on that board.. came up empty.
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Alienware 17 r4 bios chip location?
Hope this is in the right spot, i'm not asking for bios files just some help figuring things out
So. i have an alienware 17 r4 in with motherboard la-d751p bap10.. Dell released bios for it that bricks it and thats what happened, bad enough that bios recovery doesn't work. Laptop worked perfect until this bios upgrade..
I ordered a programmer and am reading/watching videos on how to flash it, my main question is, has anyone here done one of these and if so do you know the location of the bios chip? (I haven't pulled the board out yet but am trying to get my ducks...Last edited by icetech; 07-04-2020, 09:38 AM. -
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Just saying hi so i can post Been doing computer repair for decades but not much more component level than replacing bad caps.. here looking for some info on programming a bad bios chip..
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