Dell Inspiron 5680 Service Manual - Page 95

Flashing the BIOS, Product support - manual

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66 Flashing the BIOS You may need to flash (update) the BIOS when an update is available or when you replace the system board. Follow these steps to flash the BIOS: 1. Turn on your computer. 2. Go to www.dell.com/support. 3. Click Product support, enter the Service Tag of your computer, and then click Submit. NOTE: If you do not have the Service Tag, use the auto-detect feature or manually browse for your computer model. 4. Click Drivers & downloads > Find it myself. 5. Select the operating system installed on your computer. 6. Scroll down the page and expand BIOS. 7. Click Download to download the latest version of the BIOS for your computer. 8. After the download is complete, navigate to the folder where you saved the BIOS update file. 9. Double-click the BIOS update file icon and follow the instructions on the screen. Flashing the BIOS 95

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Flashing the BIOS
You may need to flash (update) the BIOS when an update is available or when you replace the system board.
Follow these steps to flash the BIOS:
1.
Turn on your computer.
2.
Go to
www.dell.com/support
.
3.
Click
Product support
, enter the Service Tag of your computer, and then click
Submit
.
NOTE:
If you do not have the Service Tag, use the auto-detect feature or manually browse for your computer model.
4.
Click
Drivers & downloads
>
Find it myself
.
5.
Select the operating system installed on your computer.
6.
Scroll down the page and expand
BIOS
.
7.
Click
Download
to download the latest version of the BIOS for your computer.
8.
After the download is complete, navigate to the folder where you saved the BIOS update file.
9.
Double-click the BIOS update file icon and follow the instructions on the screen.
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