monkeyfist545

Right, my laptop is back and finally fixed after some of Dells poorest customer support. can anyone who has actually managed to downgrade from A09 to A03 tell me the exact steps they used? I am hesitant to try again when I managed to brick my machine last time. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

It wont respond at all anymore. Even when I use the end key malarky it wont how any sign of life. It's just completely dead

Hi all, I thought I would share what has just happened with my brand new M14xR2 (shipped with windows 8)... After reading all of this I decided to downgrade my bios to A03 (I think from A09 as it is less than a week old). So I grabbed A03 from the dell website and pulled out the .FD file and renamed it to M14XR2.HDR (I had no response when leaving it as .FD and read this on another forum). Put it on a FAT32 formatted stick and did the whole END key thing until my laptop started beeping at me. It beeped for a couple of minutes but then did not reboot for a very long time. After 10/15 minutes I killed the power thinking that it was never going to reboot on its own and tadaaa!!!! a bricked laptop Should have a technician round tomorrow to replace the motherboard but I was just wondering what I did wrong? was I too impatient or did I make some sort of error? I did this without removing the battery also because of something suggested on another forum. I feel like an idiot now for not making this post before I attempted it but I wanted to know what I did wrong, especially if I muster up the courage to give this another shot with my new motherboard. Thanks guys.