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Updating BIOS A03 to A05 on Aurora R4 gets 'Error: Problem allocating memory'
I recently bought a new GPU which requires me to update my BIOS as it turns out my Aurora R4 is on an ancient BIOS even though I only bought it 6 or so years ago... Over the last few days I've learnt more than I ever wanted to about this process, but am stuck at near the final stage.
I've learnt I need to format a small USB flash drive to be FAT32 (I kept recommended cluster size and used Rufus after the Dell utility formatter didn't seem to work), add the Aurora R4 BIOS A05 update .exe file to it, load in Legacy mode and then boot from the .exe BIOS file. It seems to like it, ME systems are the same, it notes I am on A03 and the file on the stick is A05 then I hit this roadblock:
"start to update new bios... - Error: problem allocating memory
remove temporary files... OK?
reboot system or not. (y) yes. (n) no."
Any ideas what I may have done wrong would be really appreciated
Alienware-Eimy
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December 19th, 2017 13:00
Hi Arandlas,
Try the A06 version here:
Alienware Aurora R4 System BIOS Driver Details | Dell US
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December 21st, 2017 12:00
Hi Alienware-Eimy,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately as I say, it seems I must upgrade to A05 first before attempting jumping to other more recent versions. The 'installation instructions' on the A06 BIOS in your link also says to do so first (and it is the upgrading to this old A05 BIOS that is the difficult bit :/ )
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December 26th, 2017 08:00
Send me a private message with your service tag so I can check.