[ytsejam1138]

So as reported in this thread bios-upgrade-fails-t227s10.html#p6722 BIOS A02 is out. Does this fix the resolution issue? I have done the hack so I'm unable to tell. Please post whatever changes you find.

I flashed in Windows with no problems. After you click run the exe and click start, WAIT the Winphlash screen will pop up and you should get an hourglass. WAIT WAIT and WAIT It will upgrade by itself no need to hit anything on this screen. Let the program flash the BIOS and your machine will reboot.

[Dunhamzzz]

I'm always warey about BIos upgrades, huge potential to brick things.

Unless there are any major improves I shall leave myself be!

If it ain't broke don't fix it!

[onefish2]

First off i have no idea what was updated in version A02. I didn't even look.

I run Ubuntu on my Mini9 and even though there are solutions to update the BIOS from Dell using the command line, they all suck.

I downloaded the A02 bios.exe file and put it on my Ultimate Boot CD USB stick. Booted that up and discovered that when you run the .exe file it wants to extract itself to c:\Windows\temp. Since I am booted into WinPE, I do not have a C drive...now what. I am running of a RAm disk called X. Now what?

I copy the bios.exe file over to my parallels VM since I run Mac OS X as may primary desktop. I run the .exe file and then take its output from C:\Windows\TEMP and copy it to the root of my Ultimate BOOT CD USB Drive.

Boot that up and run the Winphlash program to update the BIOS. It updates the BIOS successfully to A02.

This is all a real pain in the ass. I used to be very involved with Compaq and HP ProLiant servers that ran Red Hat Linux and later Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Compaq/HP ported all the Windows systems management tools to Linux back in 2001-2002 or so. Everything that you could do on Windows servers to build, maintain, monitor and patch a server you could do on Linux.

I work for Dell now and I am responsible for on-site server engineering for a really large company that has thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers. The systems management tools are also availbale on RHEL and SuSE. Google runs their own custom Debian version on their servers so Dell ported all the systems management tools over to Debian for them.

Now why can't Dell make a Linux based BIOS flashing tool available for consumer products that run Ubunutu???

[hyp36rmax]

Updated! doesn't look like the video ram was updated :|

[GerallK]

I just flashed my Mini Ubuntu up to A02, and poked around the settings in the BIOS. Nothing to see there...

Curiously, the Dell website lists the difference for this version as "performance updates".

Got to love the descriptive text! Unless I can sense something poking around using my system tools, I think it's safe to skip this update, too.

[Klug]

Just bricked my Mini9 while trying to upgrade to A02.

The flash software hung while flashing (whole system was hanged, no more touchpad, etc).

After 8 minutes of "nothing moving" I had to remove battery and PSU.

I now have a bricked Mini9.

[somms]

Originally Posted by Klug

Just bricked my Mini9 while trying to upgrade to A02.

The flash software hung while flashing (whole system was hanged, no more touchpad, etc).

After 8 minutes of "nothing moving" I had to remove battery and PSU.

I now have a bricked Mini9.

Did you attempt the flash in Windows? Flashing the BIOS to A02 in DOS is much faster and much safer since it is less prone to lockup due to the OS...

[strider_mt2k]

Just ran the A02 update with zero problems.

I just made sure my Mini 9 was plugged in like it says in the instructions and didn't have any other programs running.
When it finished my system rebooted and it was updated, running normally.

I'm sorry to hear that this update is causing problems for folks too. The last one seemed to have it's share of troubles.

[jucs]

Hi there!

Can you please tell me if they fixed the annoying battery noise? I've just ordered it, but as I read that it starts peeping at 10% (so at up to 45 (!!!) minutes) of battery life remaining I was shocked...

Thank you for your help!

[admisi]

Have you tried changing the alarm down from 10%? Right click on battery in taskbar, adjust power properties and go to Alarm tab.