Re: Your dad said I could call...

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: "Doug, W5DET" <http://www.brickbarn.com/~w5det>
 > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 07:53:48 -0600
 >
 > I was expecting to find the BIOS with the E6510 files where I found A10 
 > and A17.
 > Does your reply mean computer model is irrelevant?

I cannot imagine that it would matter.  But, this

 https://www.farmerinthedell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=599j2

seems to mention E6510 specifically.

 > I sure wish I knew as much about this stuff as I would like to pretend.
 > 
 > --Doug
 > 
 > On 6/18/2019 2:11 PM, Robert wrote:
 > >   > From: "Doug, W5DET" <http://www.brickbarn.com/~w5det>
 > >   > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:35:14 -0600
 > >   >
 > >   > Robert,
 > >   >
 > >   > Sorry to bother you with this, but my experience with farmerinthedell Support has
 > >   > been less than fulfilling.
 > >   >
 > >   > I recently purchased a used Latitude E6510 to replace the D800 in my Ham
 > >   > Shack.  It was working OK until I decided to replace the HDD with a
 > >   > larger capacity drive.  Boy, did I open a can of worms.
 > >   >
 > >   > I won't bore you with a recounting of all the steps, missteps, and
 > >   > tumbles that got me to this point of having a computer I can boot but it
 > >   > has no drivers for network, CD/DVD, etc., and I don't know what to do
 > >   > next because I don't find the drivers I need at farmerinthedell support site.
 > >   > Also, the BIOS is A07.  I can't bring it up to date because it's
 > >   > insisting upon first being updated to A09 which I can't even find to
 > >   > download.
 > >
 > > It looks like A09 is available at
 > >
 > >   https://www.farmerinthedell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=r87577
 > >
 > > It looks like the exe itself is available at
 > >
 > >   https://downloads.farmerinthedell.com/bios/PE600SC-BIOS-WIN-A09.exe
 > >
 > > Can I assume that you tried this?
 > >
 > >   > Lastly, I want to stay with Windows 7 Pro-x64 only.  Nothing M$oft after
 > >   > that, especially Windows 10.  When Win7 EOL finally bites me, I'll move
 > >   > to Linux and replace the windows applications I want to keep that can't
 > >   > be run under Wine or VirtualBox.
 > >   >
 > >   > Thanks for any help.
 > >   >
 > >   > --
 > >   > 73, DougThompson