Apr 01

Dell BIOS Updates for Latitude and Optiplex

Optiplex

Mode BIOS Version
GX110 A09
GX240 A05
GX150 A11
GX260 A09
GX270 A07
GX280 A08
GX620 A11
745 2.6.1
755 A09*
*priority update

Latitude

Mode BIOS Version
D410 A06
D420 A05
D430 A03
D600 A16
D610 A06
D620 A08
D630 A06*
D800 A13
D810 A05
D820 A07
D830 A06
*new units shipping with A07

Go to Dell and download BIOS and driver updates at Dell Support

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Apr 25

A computer owner who has a Dell Latitude D600 kept getting a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error when he inserted his wireless card into the PCMCIA port. The card is a Level One model WPC-0300. The wireless card comes with software that was installed on the computer.

The card did not cause another laptop to crash and inserting a known good wireless card into the owner’s computer did cause a crash. So the card is good and the PCMCIA slot appears to be fine.

Upon rebooting the system, I noticed that the WPC-0300 utility software started and ran in the background at startup. I removed the software from the startup menu and rebooted, inserted the card and no crash this time.

Inserting the wireless card before running the utility seemed to be the solution.