How To Update Bios Dell Inspiron

Some of Dell'south desktops and notebooks received a firmware update a few days ago and according to user reports from around the internet, the new BIOS seems to exist breaking the firmware causing black/blue screens of expiry (BSODs), booting failures, and kicking loops. There could be some other symptoms too that haven't been widely reported yet.

Some of the afflicted models include the:

Latitude 5320 concern laptop,
Alienware Aurora R8 gaming PC, and
Inspiron 5680 desktop.

That said, this list isn't exhaustive and other devices may be affected likewise.

A Latitude 5320 user on the Dell forum with the username "Dell5320" first brought this problem to lite. They stated that the BIOS version 1.14.3 was causing "Bluish Screen & Booting Bug" on their arrangement. The firmware appears to have since been pulled from Dell's site.

Here'due south what he writes:

After upgrading my 5320's BIOS to the new one.14.3 version today, the laptop will not kicking. When pressing the power button, the light on the button volition show for effectually 10 seconds and then turn off once again. Occasionally the whole keyboard lights upwards but the laptop volition shutdown shortly after, merely sometimes the laptop will turn on and brandish a "Time-of-24-hour interval not prepare - please run SETUP program" error, and upon pressing "Keep", the laptop will then shutdown again. A few times information technology has booted merely then shown a blue screen for a while earlier shutting down.

The same user noted that a workaround to this consequence is to downgrade the BIOS to an earlier version. Here is Dell's official guidance article on how to do it. And hither's a BIOS recovery guidance article.

An Alienware Aurora R8 user "MiraiKei" reports that the firmware version 1.0.18 caused their PC to go into a BSOD boot loop:

My Aurora R8 completely hard freeze crashed yesterday while I was playing VR. Information technology automatically rebooted but is stuck in an endless Preparing Automatic repair and then BSOD loop with a sorry face up and incomplete text.

Finally, we have an Inspiron 5680 desktop user who faced a blackness screen due to improper booting. They write:

The updates downloaded and I chose the choice to restart my PC, and now here I sit with my PC powered on, but with no output to my monitor and no lights on my peripherals. It's been similar this for almost an 60 minutes.

And so, correct now, it'south probably best to avoid a firmware update on your Dell machines. Nonetheless, if you have already updated and are experiencing issues, endeavour the BIOS downgrade workaround that we mentioned earlier.

via BleepingComputer