Dell released a new bios for the Vostro line, from the 3350 to the 3550, concerning a problem with switchable graphics. The old BIOS settings wouldn't allow. Dell Vostro 14 3458 Dell Vostro 3458 Dell Vostro 3558 Haswell/Broardvie BIOS Version A01 Schematic LA-B843P Dell ins15-5558 LA-B843P v1.0 BIOS AAL10 LA-B843P Rev 1.0 (A00) sp125 25q64fv Discrete.
You have a task to image a brand new laptop that came from the vendor preloaded with the latest Ubuntu Linux but you want to run a Windows OS instead for the user. As you may know, some mid-size to large environment already have some sort of procedure in place to install many instances of Windows OS to different devices (Desktop, Laptop, Mobile) depending on your bandwidth speed.
Before you can download the image onto the laptop, you would need to configure the BIOS to boot utilizing PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) by having your laptop connected (wired) with network cable (CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6, etc).
Vostro 3350 BIOS Update Failed - Dell › See more all of the best law on www.dell.com Law Details: Mar 31, 2016 I had a working Vostro 3350 laptop and was doing maintenance to bring it up to date. Find system alerts, service events, top solutions and more to help identify and learn to resolve issues. Before upgrading the old hard disk, we timed our Vostro 3350 and it took exactly 60 seconds to boot to the Windows login screen. After cloning the hard disk and booting (from cold, just as with the hard disk test) from the SSD, we saw the Windows login screen in just 19 seconds.
When the laptop runs the full cycle of booting… you’ll get Ubuntu! ye…! no, not really.
How do we go about by getting rid of Ubuntu Linux? Read on…
Step 1
As the laptop reboot or boots up, as soon as you see the Dell logo press ‘F2’ (Preparing to enter Setup).
At this point you will see the Settings, making changes on this panel is critical on the behavior of the device… very careful!
Step 2
Expand on (+) Secure Boot.
Under Secure Boot Enable -> By default is ‘Enabled‘, we want to ‘Disabled‘ Secure Boot feature -> Click Yes to confirm.
Step 3
Under General which is already expanded -> Click ‘Advanced Boot Options’
Under Advanced Boot Options, by default is uncheck.
Check mark ‘Enable Legacy Option ROMs‘
Step 4
Still under General -> Click on ‘Boot Sequence‘
Under Boot Sequence by default ‘UEFI‘ is selected -> Select ‘Legacy‘ instead
Step 5
Reboot the device and press ‘F2’ again as soon as you see Dell logo.
Dell Vostro 3350 Bios Download
Step 6
Under General -> Click on ‘Boot Sequence‘
On this windows you can uncheck the components that you don’t need by unchecking them. But notice that Onboard NIC is at the bottom of the list in the right; we want to bring it to top. Highlight Onboard NIC and with the up arrow click four (4) times, so now when your laptop boots up and you have connected the CAT cable to the NIC (Network Interface Card) the laptop should look for the image server and start the process of imaging the device.
The image above shows the device trying to connect to the image server
Step 7 (Troubleshoot)
What if when the laptop boots up it doesn’t work and you’ll see a diagnostic windows searching for the OS, then what?
Dell Vostro 3350 Bios Reset
You would need to go back to BIOS by pressing ‘F2’ and Expand (+) System Configuration and under System Configuration -> Click on ‘Integrated NIC‘ and made sure ‘Enabled w/PXE‘ is selected.