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Working on a client's laptop (Inspiron 1764) and there is a BIOS update available (A13 I think). I was going to just use the flash utility, but I've never done it on a Dell before and I'm hesitant.
The lappy had all sorts of problems. Extremely long time to boot, long time to load programs, wouldn't alt+tab half the time and whenever I tried to get into Task MGR I would get a error. I can't remember the error off the top of my head but a Winsock Reset seemd to have fixed the problem. Ran a bunch of AV and everything came up clean.
Ran WD's DLGDiag and the hard drive failed both short and long tests so I'm in the process of replacing the HD. Question is, could a corrupt or old BIOS cause the sypmtoms above, or is it most likely due to HD failing? I'm leaning to the HD failing, and I don't have access to a floppy so flashing the BIOS is the last thing I'll need to do. I still need to run memtest on it to test the RAM also.
The lappy had all sorts of problems. Extremely long time to boot, long time to load programs, wouldn't alt+tab half the time and whenever I tried to get into Task MGR I would get a error. I can't remember the error off the top of my head but a Winsock Reset seemd to have fixed the problem. Ran a bunch of AV and everything came up clean.
Ran WD's DLGDiag and the hard drive failed both short and long tests so I'm in the process of replacing the HD. Question is, could a corrupt or old BIOS cause the sypmtoms above, or is it most likely due to HD failing? I'm leaning to the HD failing, and I don't have access to a floppy so flashing the BIOS is the last thing I'll need to do. I still need to run memtest on it to test the RAM also.
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