Now to your request: Since I don't have any own experience with Insyde BIOSes, I am not able to help you myself.
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I doubt, that you will benefit from an update of the Intel RAID ROM module. This is especially valid for mobile systems like your notebook. You always should remember, that you may have a bricked notebook at the end.įYI: The newest drivers/BIOS modules are not always the best. Is it HM87?Īlthough I can unstand your wish to get/keep your system up-to-date, I would like to warn you: Any BIOS modding experiments with mobile systems are very risky. Unfortunately I haven't found any information about the chipset of the mainboard. Thanks for the answers and the details of your Dell system. Interface/ConnectorĚTA/100 with 40-pin IDE connector One of the main reasons why I bought this laptop. Yes, I purchased the system setup in a RAID configuration. Have you set the SATA Controller of your Dell system to RAID?
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I still would like to know how to do it and then make it happen so I have the most up to date drivers, ROMs, etc.
Why do you want to update the RAID ROM module?īecause I'd like to have the most recent update available. Link to fresh Dell Alienware 17 System BIOS vA14: >BIOS< If we can figure this out, we would have the process posted here for others that are seeking to do the same thing with their Alienware laptop. I've done a LOT of reading here and trying different things. If someone could help me along I would appreciate it. And I think this is why this process is being so difficult.Insyde BIOS. I will attach the bios (AW17A14.exe) and the FD file that I was able to extract (AW17A14.fd). To date, the phoenixtool seems like the one that will work but I don't really know how to navigate the tool and make necessary mods while not bricking my laptop. fd without some kind of file corruption message was the next challenge. But everything I have tried I run into road blocks. I've been working on this for weeks now, trying to do this myself.