Sorry to have taken this long, however I wanted to try it twice.
I used the first suggestions (Upgrading the BIOS using Dell's "biodisk" and "syslinux memdisk")
I followed the instructions precicely, all went well until I started 3555A05.exe
The program started and asked one question only:
-Start to flash.........[Y/N]:
I entered Y and was rewarded with a flashing cursor
PERIOD
The first time this happened I waited about an hour before shutting down. second try ditto
today I did it all over again, including downloading 3555A05.exe
Same result.
Here the output of the suggested commands:
bios-version : A03 bios-release-date: 08/09/2011
Sorry to have taken this long, however I wanted to try it twice.
I used the first suggestions (Upgrading the BIOS using Dell's "biodisk" and "syslinux memdisk")
I followed the instructions precicely, all went well until I started 3555A05.exe
The program started and asked one question only:
-Start to flash.. ....... [Y/N]:
I entered Y and was rewarded with a flashing cursor
PERIOD
The first time this happened I waited about an hour before shutting down.
second try ditto
today I did it all over again, including downloading 3555A05.exe
Same result.
Here the output of the suggested commands:
bios-version : A03
bios-release-date: 08/09/2011