[GTALUG] Dell Latitude E6400 -- free

Amos H. Weatherill Amos.Weatherill at zoho.com
Thu Aug 13 23:57:12 UTC 2015


Hello William,

You can drop it off at Bill's if that is more convienent than bringing it to the GTALUG Meeting.

Either way works for me.

Thank You,
Amos

Sent from my android device.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
To: talk at gtalug.org
Sent: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:40
Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Dell Latitude E6400 -- free

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:20:25PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:02:49AM -0400,  wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:37:32AM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > > I can't even get to BIOS.  Power LED comes on and few other keyboard
> > > related LEDs.  Then, it turns off.
> > 
> > Some people have managed to get it to reflash the failed update to A34
> > by putting the bios on a 2GB or smaller USB key and holding down END
> > key while turning it on.  You have to put the HDR and ROM files on the
> > USB key.
> > 
> > Apparently failling while updating to A34 has happened quite a bit.
> 
> >From what I have seen the procedure is:
> 
> Extract the bios files:
> 
> E6400A34.EXE -writehdrfile
> 
> This even works with wine:
> # wine E6400A34.exe -writehdrfile
> 
> resulting in:
> $ file E64*
> E6400A34.exe: MS-DOS executable
> E6400A34.hdr: Dell system BIOS version A34
> 
> Then place the resulting file on a usb key that is no more than 2GB
> (probably needs to be FAT16 is my guess).
> 
> Unplug battery and power, then insert usb key, hold END key, and plug
> in power (leave battery out apparently), battery light should go red,
> release END key, and it should reflash the bios again.  At least as far
> as I understand the instructions.

I have ThinkPad T43 (Windows 10) fortunately.  I extracted HDR file,
copied to 256MB usb stick (FAT16), and booted per instruction.  The
battery LED flashes orange/blue (blue is default colour)... it's been
flashing for 2 hours. :-(

Keyboard LEDs are diagnostic LEDs during POST, and they say I may have
processor failure.  What a shame... its keyboard is the best laptop
keyboard I came across.
-- 
William
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