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Flashing the bios – Dell Alienware 17 R2 (Early 2015) User Manual

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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. To flash the BIOS:

1

Turn on the computer.

2 Go to dell.com/support.
3 Click Product Support, enter the Service Tag of your laptop and 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.
5 Scroll down to Or, show me all available drivers for … and select

BIOS from the Category drop-down list.

NOTE: In the

Change OS drop-down list, select the operating

system installed on your computer.

6 Expand BIOS to view the available BIOS files.
7 Click Download File to download the latest version of the BIOS for your

computer.

8 Save the file and once 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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