[henkho]

I did what you suggested at my Mini 10. She now working fine!

Thanks again,

[xiao]

Thanks a lot every one!
Great job and method, my mini is alive again. Just work with external FDD and 32bit.

[rrfranczak3]

Originally Posted by henkho

I did what you suggested at my Mini 10. She now working fine!

Thanks again,

Originally Posted by xiao

Thanks a lot every one!
Great job and method, my mini is alive again. Just work with external FDD and 32bit.

Glad you guys got it working again......but if either was due to BIOS upgrades....

Just leave it alone from here on in

I never recommend a touching the BIOS unless it is absolutely necessary and in most cases it is not....my 1010 came with A10 BIOS back in August '09 and have never seen a reason to touch it..everything on it including the HD and the TV Tuner and Video work flawlessly, They have A11 out now and personally I dont want it!!!!!....Congrats again guys

[pcarts]

Greetings

Sorry but i can't download the attached file can anyone tell me how to get it..

Thanks

[sonictron]

Originally Posted by waqassaeed

I am getting this error when i try to create a USB Flash drive.


-----------------------------------------------------------
The Crisis Disk boot sector for drive f:
is being created
-----------------------------------------------------------

Bad switch or illigal drive name.
SYNTAX: makeboot [switch]
Switch:
/h, -h or /? for help.
a: or b: for drive (default a.
Press any key to continue . . .


can somebody help. I did changed the drive letter and run the batch file. After formatting it copies the files and create a boot sector and then give this error.

Any suggestions.

I am also having this issue when using a USB stick. It spans across multiple computers, operating systems, and flash drives....I feel I must be missing something important. Anyone have a helpful clue?

[jhook32244]

Praise the LORD! WOW I followed the instuction as stated on this thread and my MINI 1012 came back to life!
It's funny that the only reason I wanted to upgrade the bios was when I went to the DELL download section I saw that it was RECOMMENDED to do this.I figued what the heck and thats went it went to the pits. WOW this FORUM is AWSOME! THANKS GUYS!

[dean7828]

hi trying to recover my 1010, im could someone please give me a detailed sequence to creating the usb. i did create one but i had the disk read failure so not sure if i did it correctly as my 1010 is still going thought the beep process, also i tried using the keys fn-end with no battery and dident work, i finally got it to bleep but had to leave the battery in.

any help on the usb stick process would be greatly appreciated

---------- Post added at 05:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:21 PM ----------

Originally Posted by rti

hi,

i just want to say that you dont need to buy an expensive usbfdd, you don't need to get one lended, only that you need is the progam form (somms reply4) and a pendrive, extract the file exe with winrar in other folder, then go to the 'crisdisk.bat' file and edit the next lines

set crisisdrivename=a:
If not '%crisisdrivename%'=='a:' goto cdenverr

replace a with the letter of your pendrive

then replace the file 'bios.wph', with the bios file of your mini and rename as 'bios.wph', then confirm that you want to replace the file for the new one

then exe execute the file 'crisdisk.bat' ( this will format your pendrive)
ther follow the steps 4-7 form the list

where do you get the bios file from the mini to replace i cant get it off the device as its dead?

[guerreromd]

Originally Posted by micattack

Hi, just to report back from just lurking here.

On Saturday I tried the A04 Bios Upgrade. My keyboard froze up. My external mouse still worked. I tried shutting down all aps, tried exiting windows, but coudn't. When I did a hard-reset, nothing happened. I had succesfully bricked my Dell Inpiron Mini 10.

I downloadedes somms files from ( No Links)

I tried around with an USB flash-drive first. I tried everything (Making my own FDD-Image and putting it on the flash-drive with unix-tool "dd"). It didn't work. So give up trying with flash-drives.

On monday I bought a usb-floppy drive. They even gave me a disk for free (yay!). I made the floppy-disk, then used brainiac88's instructions with FN + END ( No Links )

And I am writing this posting on my Dell - Mini again.
Here are the instructions again, slightly modified.

1) Check if you can potentially unbrick your dell. Take out the battery. Pull the power plug. Press FN + End and hold it. Put the power plug back. The power LED should flash shortly. Press the Power button. The power LED should stay on.
2) Get a USB FDD and connect it to a PC with a 32-bit OS. 64-bit does not work due to the MAKEBOOT.exe. I used a Y-E Data 4x FDD and Win7 x86.
3) Download and Run as Administrator the file from SOMMS in post #4. Start the CRISDISK.BAT
4) Plug the USB FDD into your dead Mini10 and remove its battery.
5) Press Fn + END and plug in the DC power.
[Yes it is difficult to reach the END key. Try this: Plug the power adapter into a power strip and make sure the power strip's switch is OFF. Plug the DC jack into the Mini10. Press Fn + END. Use your toe to power on the power strip.]
6) Power LED will flash. Press Power Button without releasing Fn + END. FDD will read once, stop, then read continuously because it is booting from it. Release Fn + END.
7) Mini10 will beep intermittently and annoyingly for several minutes. DO NOT DISCONNECT POWER. It will reboot itself after one final long-ass BEEEEEP.
8) Your Mini is now unbricked

If it helps you, attached is floppy-disk-image. You can copy it directly to a disk with dd (No Links) and the line "dd if=image.fdd of=\\.\a: bs=1440k"

I've read the posts on this thread and figure that my mini have the same problem as the others. (doing as if it was going to turn on but staying at the black screen)

So I followed the steps above.

Everything seemed to be going well. All the beeps and everything.

After a few minutes the beeping and the FDD stop. Like 3 seconds later there is another short beep.

After that short beep, the mini just hangs there. The LED is on, but it doesn't do anything.

I've let stand there with the power plugged in for almost an hour and nothing.

Maybe there is something else wrong with this one?

[Fan2Mario]

Can you show where is the CMOS Battery can't find it except the circle metal thing on the ... I suppose it's the Hard Drive : it's grey and it's a big square. It's the first time i openned a computer : Need help !!
Thx in advance !

[rrfranczak3]

Originally Posted by Fan2Mario

Can you show where is the CMOS Battery can't find it except the circle metal thing on the ... I suppose it's the Hard Drive : it's grey and it's a big square. It's the first time i openned a computer : Need help !!
Thx in advance !

1. coin-cell battery
2. coin-cell battery cable connector



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