BuggZ
Experienced Member
I have a Dell 425s/L 486 system that was working fine until recently. I powered it up one day and received the following message
"System BIOS is damaged. Reloading from diskette in Drive A:..."
It then attempts to read from the A drive. I searched Dell's support site and finally found the BIOS but the download is an executable (.exe) file which is not read when the system searches the disk. I tried extracting the file on another computer but receive the message. "Cannot use a Dell "System Wild BIOS" in a XXX" (XXX is actually a series of ASCII characters that I believe the program is trying to use to identify the system attempting to run it). "Press any key to exit. ROM has not been updated"
I think I need the actual BIOS binary file on the disk in the A drive for the update to reload but I have not been able to find it anywhere. Any chance someone here might have a copy or could make a backup image of the Dell 425s/L BIOS? My system has the on-board TSeng Labs graphics chip. If I can't get the BIOS updated then it will be headed for the recycling bin. Thanks in advance.
"System BIOS is damaged. Reloading from diskette in Drive A:..."
It then attempts to read from the A drive. I searched Dell's support site and finally found the BIOS but the download is an executable (.exe) file which is not read when the system searches the disk. I tried extracting the file on another computer but receive the message. "Cannot use a Dell "System Wild BIOS" in a XXX" (XXX is actually a series of ASCII characters that I believe the program is trying to use to identify the system attempting to run it). "Press any key to exit. ROM has not been updated"
I think I need the actual BIOS binary file on the disk in the A drive for the update to reload but I have not been able to find it anywhere. Any chance someone here might have a copy or could make a backup image of the Dell 425s/L BIOS? My system has the on-board TSeng Labs graphics chip. If I can't get the BIOS updated then it will be headed for the recycling bin. Thanks in advance.