You will need to flash to a22 then to a32. Here is the a22 iso. You will need the iso to make a bootable cd. Not sure if you can do it with Nero express, but if you cant you can download nero's trial version. Let me know if you can do it with express for I would like to know for future reference. No, it will not erase your hard drive for your information on your hard drive will remain the same. The BIOS is software on a chip on your motherboard and that is what gets updated. Pressing F10 at boot when you see the Dell logo will enable you to select the option to boot from a cdrom drive. So create your iso and boot from cd and flash your bios. Just a note an improper flash can brick your motherboard.
Here is BIOS A31. People prefer BIOS A31 because of the way A32 regulates the Fan. I always had A31 on my system for over a year and my system worked fine. I recently (2 weeks ago) put on A32 to see what difference it would make. It is up to you if you want to create a bootable cd with the exe on it for the exe will work in windows. I prefer a bootable cd and running the exe in dos so that you dont have anything that might interfere in the background.
Note: Make sure the ac adapter is connected and the battery is charged 10% or above to update the BIOS. Also, disconnect all the external peripherals before updating the BIOS. All the programs should be closed and documents saved.
You may have noticed that when you buy a cd from a shop, and put it into your computer and start playing it through media player. (with the internet disconnected) Media player will show that all the songs are called track 01, track 02, and that it is an unknown artist, and unknown album.
This is because when Audio CD's were originally designed, there was no need to include this type of information. So once they made audio cd's and started selling cd players, they couldn't exactly just change things and render 1000's of cd players around the world useless.
Every burning program, 5 or 6 of them, I've used up to now has been capable of getting the information from somewhere and making it usable for examining the disc or -- more importantly -- for printing a contents list for the jewel case or on the disc itself. (Not for some ancient CDs, but only a few.)
ExpressBurn does display such a list, with the full .WAV file path names and track names, but it won't let me use it as a text file, so I can only use it via a screen grab. That means that ExpressBurn has the information I want to use, but it won't let me use it as data, either for printing or to put in a database. Doesn't make sense to me, and it makes ExpressBurn almost useless as far as I'm concerned. Are you saying that even the pay version can't meet such a basic requirement even when the information is available?
I'm pretty sure too that there is a way you can put track information on an audio CD but not all players will be able to read the information. And I think it causes problems with playback on some older cd players. (I vaguely remember reading something about it a fair while ago)
That's exactly what I want to do, NCHan! And/or perhaps to optionally be able to write a text file containing all that stuff, including source file ids and paths. It would be useful for MP3 discs/pods as well.
I would love to be able to have the names of the tunes burned onto cds when I burn them also. I typically burn home made music onto cds and I know there is absolutely no on line information about those tunes, however the wav files that I load into Burn Express Plus has names attached.
when using roxio easy media creator 7 basic dvd, i notice that there is a spot to put "UPC CODE" and i have left that blank. roxio seems to create the audio cd's in the same output format as burn express. i find express burn simpler to use that the gargantuan roxio, so i'll probably stick with it, but it sure would be nice to get that missing song/track/album/artist info that the mp3's contain onto the audio CD's i/we are creating.
using windows media player 9, default with winxpprosp2, and with a firewall, zonealarm, not allowing access to the net, various commercial CD's have different behavior and info popping into WMP. some using random and various CD's, i get some of the following behavior. all CD's play both in my drive and also a cheapy, no-frills, portable diskman-alike.
"deee-lite/'dewdrops in the garden'" which i just recreated from mp3's exactly as the original album, appears as an audio disk - WMP wants to access the net, but comes up with NO song/album/artist info even though all of this was entered both in the mp3's, into roxio's info fields, and as much of same was entered into burn express (two different CD's, one created with each program)
I'm a musician I recorded my own album then used CDbaby.com to distribute it. In preparing to do so, I bought a UPC code from CDBaby. The upc code is simply a unique identifier for a product. In my case the UPC code for the CD points to cdbaby as the manufacturer, but also specifically references my CD. Not the individual songs, just the CD as a whole. So, it appears unlikely that the UPC is used by WMP to collect ID info about tunes, because there is no such info encoded in the UPC I have.
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