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I successfully unbricked my bios today. - You need a USB stick; preferably 4GB or less - Download the A10 bios from dell website. Drivers & Downloads | Dell United States - Extract the zip file M17xR2A10.zip - Extract the zip file CRISDICK.ZIP, found in the A10 subfolder of the extracted files above - If you have Windows 8 your are screwed - or at least I couldn't make it work - If your computer has Windows XP you are very lucky, run WINCRIS.EXE, choose your usb drive under the dropdown list and click start. When finished wait 5s and unplug the usb stick. - If you have Windows 7 go to Windows Virtual PC: Home Page and follow the instructions to install windows xp mode -Once installed and started select the USB from the usb menu. - run WINCRIS.EXE, choose your usb drive under the dropdown list and click start. When finished wait 5s and unplug the usb stick. - Remove the battery from the M17xR2 - Plug the usb stick in the esata port (on the left side next to the firewire port, on the left side of the laptop) - Press and hold FN + B and turn power on. - After a few seconds you should see the lights of the stick blinking. after about 5-10s of blinking you cand release the key combination. - Go grab a coffee and come 20-30min later, hopefully you should see the windows sign in.

Hello, Perhaps you can help me. I had an Alienware M17x R2 which worked for years until one day the screen didn't work anymore (for no apparent reason). I did all I could to diagnostic including resetting the screen cable, to no avail. The computer still did work, with either an external monitor or remotely. Desperate for a solution I tried to reflash the bios but the reflashing program from dell crashed after a few minutes. I let the program run for about 30mins but the computer did lots of fan noise and nothing seemed to happen so I ended up unplugging from DC and removing the battery. Now the program doesn't do anything and I can access the bios. So I tried the above mentioned solution from Brian. Problem is, when I press End and p^lug the powerchord nothing happens. Only when I press the start button do I see my usb stick light flicker (e.g. apparently reading) but nothing elses happens and no beep. Any idea what I can do or is the notebook dead for good?