Re: Installing an upgraded Bios Version

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From: Gene K (nobody_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/10/04


Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 21:31:43 -0400

Plus the fact that this type of question shoud have been addressed to Dell
Support.
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:uNgo7lhrEHA.3900@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
| If you have a Dell Inspiron 4000 notebook, then you
| need to only install Dell's A23 BIOS update. Visit:
|
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/type.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=INS_PNT_CEL_4000&category=1&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=744&devlib=1
|
| --
| Carey Frisch
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows XP - Shell/User
|
| Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
| http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
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|
| "RicknNY716" wrote:
|
|| I purchased a battery for my Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. An important
|| notice came with it. It states "Please note that this notebook computer
|| battery you purchased works perfectly with your laptop computer when the
|| corresponding BIOS versions are installed:
||
|| 1. Latitude CPi-BIOS version A15
|| 2. Latitude CPx-BIOS version A14
|| 3. Latitude C600-BIOS version A21
||
|| Service Tag for Cpi: WHKXK
|| Service Tag for Latitude CPx: 1LFQ201
|| Service Tag for Latitude C600 49SH611
||
||
|| It further states "Should your notebook computer not have the specified
|| Bios version, please upgrade your laptop with the Bios version stated
|| abovefrom this website
||
|| http//support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
||
|| to ensure the battery pack functions normally with your laptop."
||
|| My question is: Are you suppose to install all 3 of the different
versions
|| or just one of them? Also if you only has to install one of them, should
a
|| newer version (eg-A23 be installed instead?
||
||
||
||
|



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