Dalle & DXter

Automatic Bios update with PowerShell

By Fredrik Wall

I currently working with clients in an environment

without any system that will update computers

Bios automatically.

So I have started to write a PowerShell script for this.

It uses Windows Forms for the output and WMI for

the information gathering.

This script is very similar to Dells VBScript for Bios Upgrades.

That script can be found here.

 

My script will check for current version on the computer and
then check in a file structure for the right bios upgrade version
and If It needs to be upgraded It will run the upgrade file.

My file structure is very simple and It’s located on a file share.

 

 

 

The bios upgrade files for Dell computers can be found

at ftp.dell.com/bios

The script is in a alpha or Beta phase, but If you are interested

in It you can mail me, DM me on Twitter or send me a message at

messenger.

 

Windows 7 + Samsung R610 = True

By Fredrik Wall

YES!

I did fix one of my bigger problems

The problems:

1. Could not update the bios on my new laptop
   on Windows Vista 64-Bit and on Windows 7 64-Bit
2. When I installed Windows 7 on my new Samsung
   R610 laptop I got several problems.

   The biggest problem was that the standard VGA
   graphic driver was the only driver that worked.
   And the NVidia driver crashed my computer.

How-To and the solution:

1. I installed Windows Vista 32-Bit and did the bios
   update from the Samsung support page.
2. After the bios update I installed a fresh copy of
   Windows 7.

   Then downloaded and installed the newest driver on NVidias download page.
   Before any updates from Microsoft!

 

Now I got great resolutions and I can use my external screen.
Better than with Windows Vista!
After some extra job, but that’s okay

Samsung R610 + update bios

By Fredrik Wall

I have been trying to update the bios on my new Samsung R610 Laptop for a while with no good result.

I have been trying with Vista 64-Bit and Win 7 RTM 64-Bit.

And now I uninstalled my Windows 7 64-bit and installed Vista 32-bit and now It went well! Nice and not nice!

If I purshace Windows Vista or Windows 7 64-bit in a store and then
as I did make a fresh install of the operating system.
And then I need to download a trial of Windows Vista 32-bit and wipe my new OS install before I can upgrade the bios and install a 64-bit OS again

This is an 64-bit Office computer and needs an 32-bit Operating System to be bios updated…
…I say no more…