[Max_Carnage]

## Note: There are risks associated with BIOS updates. Follow this process at your own peril. ##

1. Create a DOS bootable USB stick on your Windows computer
1a] Download USBDOS tools from the end of this guide.
1b] Unzip and run HPUSBFW with...

Click here to read the entire tutorial

[holaholahola]

thank you so much! I am not a pc user or a computer person and this totally worked! the screen says bios 4 now. psyched and on to install snow leopard! my friends are going to be impressed I did this by myself!

[chuckiecheese]

I successfully downgraded to A04 and installed Snow Leopard. I updated to 10.6.2 and am wondering if I could upgrade my bios to A06. Has anyone done this yet? My netbook is working perfectly now on A04 except the battery life. I heard that upgraded to A06 can improve battery life. Does anyone know if A06 is stable with 10.6.2 with everything working?

[monkeyinapopesuit]

worked like a charm thanks

[floof]

@Max_Carnage much love

[webraider]

Originally Posted by chuckiecheese

I successfully downgraded to A04 and installed Snow Leopard. I updated to 10.6.2 and am wondering if I could upgrade my bios to A06. Has anyone done this yet? My netbook is working perfectly now on A04 except the battery life. I heard that upgraded to A06 can improve battery life. Does anyone know if A06 is stable with 10.6.2 with everything working?

Anyone already did this?
Thx for replies...

[Handlovitch]

I followed the steps, plugged my flash drive into the mini and went to boot from it. Skipped over it and went right into Windows. Now when I plug my flash drive in, it dings like my computer is reading it. Then nothing happens. I can't go back into my drive to format it and try again.

what did I do wrong? Can i fix it?

[Tom McBaum]

Originally Posted by ldoogy

Okay, allow me to improve on my earlier post. I have created a version of the A05 Windows installer that just works as is, with no special work required. All I did was changed a couple of flags in the installer program that allow it to downgrade your BIOS version, so it'll install A05 even if you have a higher version already installed.

You can download it at: http://files.me.com/eldade/6cbx6i

Good luck!

Could someone upload a Windows version of A05 (either stock, or patched as noted above) somewhere and post a link here, please? Dell now offers only A06 for Windows or A04 DOS. There are going to be a lot of new 10v owners this week, and I'm one of them! :-)

Update: here's an A05 BIOS for the 1011 (mini 10v) from the European site. http://support.euro.dell.com/support...&fileid=325919
Any reason I shouldn't use this?
Thx.

[madcapslaugh]

Originally Posted by Handlovitch

I followed the steps, plugged my flash drive into the mini and went to boot from it. Skipped over it and went right into Windows. Now when I plug my flash drive in, it dings like my computer is reading it. Then nothing happens. I can't go back into my drive to format it and try again.

what did I do wrong? Can i fix it?

did you hold f12 when you were rebooting?

[Ritmo737]

Max_Carnage, You're my hero!

The process was quick and painless although it took almost a minute to reboot on its own.

Much props to you and the forum!

Sal

[part of the problem]

Great tutorial, many thanks. As everyone else has said, onto SL!