Dell Vostro 200 v1.0.16 Experimental Unlocking & Upgrading Project

[Danmen1974]

The second bios in this post works perfectly on my Vostro 200!!!! Thanks!

[dhilanv]

can someone upload the dell vostro 200 original bios? can it be in a .bin format please! i can't find it on the internet. i tried to use the file that dell.com had but it said that im using the same bios version.

[dhilanv]

nevermind, i found it

[dhilanv]

when i flashed my bios with the 2nd file, it worked perfectly and i enabled ahci. everytime i restart my computer, it says cmos checksum error and everything goes back to defaults! why does that happen? this is why i reverted back to stock bios.

[storm-chaser]

I have a vostro 200 in which I would like to configure RAID0 as I have two seagate drives of the same model. I have downloaded this file:

Vostro200-1016-RAID87-AHCI120E-VGA1653-IBA1363.bin
(third version)


I believe after sorting through a number of threads, this will allow me to run raid 0 on my vostro 200? Can anyone confirm?

My next question is how do I flash the bios with this bin file, any help is appreciated. Thanks

[Noodle8or]

hi, i have been google searching like mad to find how to Flash With your .bin File... i just cant find a way to flash my vostro200 with this please give me an idiots guide thank you Very much

[bruno_tipo]

I have tried to flash the bios with awdflash; i can backup the original bios, but i can't flash the new one cause it returns the message "file size does not match"
Anyone can help me?

[RV_ABZ]

You can use either awdflash DOS tool with switches listed in previous pages or Winflash to flash from Windows. I've used the 2nd one, founding it much easier, but that's a personal choice.

For Winflash, I open up a DOS prompt window, move to the directory containing the extracted archive and type:
winflash "New BIOS filename".bin

This will launch the Winflash tool and all that's required is to click on 'Update' button. The new BIOS is then flashed in.

[hphv]

Will/can there be any further developments/enhancements to this mod?

I've used the second bios in the post. By the way it will make hackintosh work with enabling of ahci. Also added dell slic 2.1 to bios. see attached

Flashed with awdflash bios.bin /cc /cd /cp /py /wb /sn /E

make sure you have backed up your prev bios in case it doesn't work.

MW

Where can I find awdflash for win 7 64 bit?

[hphv]

Second bios works fine for my dell vostro 200st and with ahci mode increases performance versus raid mode in original bios

Quicker boottime (i have a ssd ocz vertex 2)