Okay the Guide - here we go (I did mine when on the BIOS 1.3.12 as I had rolled back to the best working BIOS from Dell) It is recommended you revert your BIOS to 1.3.12. That all said, I have done this and its fine - Much thanks to who really worked this out and he was the first to fix the issue so MUCH, MUCH KUDOS to him - He repaired what Dell cannot and their solution is a new motherboard at nearly a grand cost to you. I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL WORK FOR EVERYONE BUT ITS YOUR CALL IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT. TAKE NOTE - IF YOU TRY TO DO THIS AND BREAK YOUR LAPTOP THEN ITS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!
This issue is also found when waking from sleep.
In short the Bios Update, corrupted the Intel ME part of the Bios and no matter what Official Bios you downgrade to the laptop cannot recover the Intel ME part of the Laptop - This means the main thing you will notice on your laptop is the Laptop will no longer shut down (the LED lights will stay on and only a hard press on the power will turn off the Laptop). I have an I7 R2 but I have heard its affected many different Laptops in the R2 and R3 range - Maybe more. This is a guide to finally resolve the butchered Bios 1.4.4 that Dell Released to the public for the Alienware Laptops Here is his copy/pasted guide as follows: For current tools/utilities you'll need visit or just ask here I guess. Some of the links may be outdated by the time you read this. was kind enough to write out a step by step for the 15R2/17R3 after we fixed his. UPDATE: We've found the fix and the process to apply it. I've gone through this thread and noticed at the end there are a few leftovers that are in the same boat as me.
#Spi programmer for intel bios chip drivers#
I have reinstalled chipset drivers several times and drivers as well. I've tried to flash it using the techniques including hunter's in the other threads but it is completely unresponsive even after the CLRP trick. Intel ME is not showing in device manager at all.