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Default HOWTO: Upgrade your bios with OS X - 03-29-2009, 01:31 AM
The current latest bios for the mini 9 is A05. The current latest bios for the Vostro A90 is A04. They are equal in terms of updates, etc.

Use this guide to upgrade your Dell Mini 9 Or Vostro A90 running Mac OS X to the latest Bios from Dell.

1) If you have a mini 9...

White Dell Mini 9 | OS X 10.6.4 | BIOS A05 | 8GB STEC SSD | 2GB RAM
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Thanks for this HOWTO. Your #13 made my day. Never could figure out why wake from sleep stopped working.
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I'm running 10.6.1 on Bios A04, should I upgrade to A05? Do I need to?
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Hello everybody,

I'm new and I want to know how to upgrade to Bios05 when my OSX system was installed with Netbookinstaller.

Everything is ok, but when you say "Run Dell EFI" i'm lost... where can I run it ? I never use it.

Sorry for my bad english too...

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Hello everybody,

I'm new and I want to know how to upgrade to Bios05 when my OSX system was installed with Netbookinstaller.

Everything is ok, but when you say "Run Dell EFI" i'm lost... where can I run it ? I never use it.

Sorry for my bad english too...

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I need to update the tutorial, but no, just use NetbookInstaller.. NBI is the new dell efi, just better
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any news on how to update DM9 with A06 bios?
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Mini 9  Obsidian Black  BIOS: A05  16GB SSD  2GB RAM  Webcam: 1.3 MP  BT: On  Legacy USB: Off  Snow Leopard 10.6.2  NBI/NBM 0.83  iWork '09  iPhoto '09  iMovie '09  Photoshop CS4  Soundbooth CS4
Mini 9 Obsidian Black BIOS: A05 16GB SSD 2GB RAM Webcam: 1.3 MP BT: On Legacy USB: Off Snow Leopard 10.5.8 NBI/NBM 0.83MSO 2K8 Aperture 3.03
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is here some way how to flash bios (dell mini 9, version A05) with same version? It gives me some errors during booting, but I can't upgrade to A06, because here is no dos installer :-/
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I just found out the my STEC SSD is hosed.
I thought I had a problem with BIOS, but the problem was my had.
I tried and was successful in putting the Dell Mini Bios in my Vostro.
Now I want to put the correct BIOS, using the procedure in this page, but the only thing I get is a Black Screen with:

FreeDOS FAT Kernel_

where the underscore is the prompt.
Nothing else goes on.
What gives?
Could it be that the HD prevents the BIOS to be written?


Thanks.


PS---> By the way, if one gets the following message on the screen as the Dell boots up:
EBIOS read error: Media error
Block 0x64828 Sectors 0

Very likely your HD is hosed.
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Thank you, the bios upgrade from A01 to A05 was successful.
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I attempted this today and after a long wait at "Check bios version and platform" I got back "Error writing to drive C: DOS area: drive not ready". ???

(Also, is there a version for A06 coming?)
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Thanks for this ! Upgrades from A00 to A05 with no problems
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