{"id":158238,"date":"2010-01-09T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/09\/bios-update-for-alienware-m15x-laptops-turning-them-into-bug-eyed-bricks\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:42:46","slug":"bios-update-for-alienware-m15x-laptops-turning-them-into-bug-eyed-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/158238","title":{"rendered":"BIOS update for Alienware M15x laptops turning them into bug-eyed bricks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.notebookreview.com\/showthread.php?t=449444\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"BIOS update for Alienware M15x laptops turning them into bug-eyed bricks?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/m15x-20100109.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ve received a slew of tips this morning that Dell&#8217;s latest BIOS update for the Alienware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/09\/cannondales-mind-blowing-simon-electronic-suspension-system-han\/\">M15x<\/a> laptop is causing some pretty ugly issues. According to reports this is a different sort of update, run from an application rather than installed separately, and after the first reboot the machine gets to the POST screen then&#8230; nothing. Multiple users are complaining of this issue and one claims that Dell is shipping him a new motherboard to fix it. We&#8217;re still waiting to hear back from Dell to confirm this either way (hello weekend!), and until then we&#8217;d advice sticking with your existing version. In the mean time you can feel free to ponder just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/03\/dell-releases-bevy-of-firmware-updates-to-fix-most-of-what-ails\/\">what the heck is going on<\/a> at Dell&#8217;s QA department.<\/div>\n<p>\n[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/09\/bios-update-for-alienware-m15x-laptops-turning-them-into-bug-eye\/\">BIOS update for Alienware M15x laptops turning them into bug-eyed bricks?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:21:00 EST.  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According to reports this is a different sort of update, run from an application rather than installed separately, and after the first reboot the machine gets to the POST screen then&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}