Re: Your dad said I could call...

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > 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.
 >