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dell visat upgrade - bios not updating

pwd · 2007-06-16 15:08:49

I'm trying to install vista via the dell vista upgrade. The wizard tries to update the bios, but says it did not update correctly. Retrying results in same. Anybody know about this?

16-06-2007 3:08pm

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pwd

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I'm trying to install vista via the dell vista upgrade.
The wizard tries to update the bios, but says it did not update correctly. Retrying results in same.
Anybody know about this?

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#2 16-06-2007 3:39pm

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I downloaded the update from the dell site and ran it outside of the wizard -it worked fine then.

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#3 16-06-2007 5:15pm

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You probably needed run it as administrator, right clicking the app will bring up that option from the context menu.

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