Louis Giraud

Thank you very much ! I will give A09 a chance during holidays, hoping it solves my problem AND it doesn't screw my Alien up. In case it does not solve my problem, I'll revert to A04. I will post back the results here.

Well, I would like to avoid flashing to A09 as I've seen a lot of people encountering serious issues with it. Their nVidia GPU stopped working with no solution at all. Plus, Dell sent out replacements to most of them with the exact same issue. I like my Alienware and I need it for school so I can't afford a deadly problem with it.

Hi everyone, four days ago I made the huge mistake of "upgrading" the BIOS of my M14xR2 from A04 to A08. Since then, I got numerous hard shutdown ( can't power on without being on AC ) while gaming on battery, which never happened before. I also got my very first BSOD since I got the machine. I read on this forum that it is possible to go back from A08 to A04 using a methode called "Blind flashing" or something like that; involving extracting the firmware onto a USB Key and booting with a certain key pressed. Could someone give me the step by step procedure as I can't seem to find it again ? Thank you very much in advance !