ssprod Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Greetings... Picked me up a used D620 (Nvidia) with an early A07 bios and no Operating System. I see that Bios Version 10 is supported for the boot pack and EDP. Am I able to update via USB, rather than loading XP and using the .exe? Thanks... and keep up the great work boys! ssprod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevorcobb Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 use a hiren boot cd to load minixp and run the bios update. it errors out, but after manual reboot it will auto load the update. that's what i did. updating via linux was a bust for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipart Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 On 4/23/2012 at 7:18 PM, ssprod said: Greetings... Picked me up a used D620 (Nvidia) with an early A07 bios and no Operating System. I see that Bios Version 10 is supported for the boot pack and EDP. Am I able to update via USB, rather than loading XP and using the .exe? Thanks... and keep up the great work boys! ssprod Follow the WIKI - http://www.osxlatitude.com/custom-bios-update-with-slic-apple-logo-and-edps-dsdt/'>http://www.osxlatitude.com/custom-bios-update-with-slic-apple-logo-and-edps-dsdt/ Updating via USB boot stick works fine. Here's my take on the process as it gives some links to assist unetbootin is used to create a boot USB stick(http://tuxtweaks.com/2009/09/create-a-bootable-freedos-usb-drive-on-windows/)with freedos Once created copy the D620_OSX_NVIDIA.EXE to the usb stick (unzipped from the correct download from http://www.osxlatitude.com/custom-bios-update-with-slic-apple-logo-and-edps-dsdt/). Boot off the usb stick and choose the (this is from memory) "boot without drivers" or some such option (basically all your after is a dos prompt to enable you to execute the D620_OSX_NVIDIA.EXE (the name will be truncated due to dos limitations) program from the drive leeter of the USB stick (d:?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssprod Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 Thanks to both of you.... wealth of info. Will try Hiren's first. ssprod On 4/24/2012 at 8:03 AM, sipart said: Follow the WIKI - http://www.osxlatitu...-and-edps-dsdt/ Updating via USB boot stick works fine. Here's my take on the process as it gives some links to assist unetbootin is used to create a boot USB stick(http://tuxtweaks.com...ive-on-windows/)with freedos Once created copy the D620_OSX_NVIDIA.EXE to the usb stick (unzipped from the correct download from http://www.osxlatitu...-and-edps-dsdt/). Boot off the usb stick and choose the (this is from memory) "boot without drivers" or some such option (basically all your after is a dos prompt to enable you to execute the D620_OSX_NVIDIA.EXE (the name will be truncated due to dos limitations) program from the drive leeter of the USB stick (d:?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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