How to update your BIOS with no battery

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This is the fast and easy way to update your BIOS when the computer says that your battery is not connected. If your battery is dead or not recognized, then just force the update by going into a DOS prompt and FORCE the update.
just use the DOS command "/FORCEIT" after the exe
This only works for Windows machine right now but if you know the Linux equivalent, it would be great to hear.
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[@delboy5252]

Legend! Thank you so much for demonstrating this. Days wasted trying the usual battery reset procedures with no success. Boot from USB method kicked out the same "must have a battery" error, even though the battery is present and powering the laptop. Your method works for Dell and maybe HP too, but not Lenovo. Use the -sp command in the same way instead of /forceit. " -s ... Silent mode " " -r ... Reboot after program completed " " -sp ... Skip power status check " " -chk ... Check current TPM firmware " " -suc password ... Skip user confirmation at startup " " Note: -suc option requires supervisor password. "

[@MikeDancy]

thanks for the comment and the information!

[@marlonlozada3048]

tried this but it still checks for the battery... in my case it reads C:\lenovo>6uuj20us.exe -sp lenovo is the folder i made on my c drive for this. Thx in advance

[@pierre2029]

Error : Invalid WinFlash parameters

[@poudritsa]

Legend!!!

[@sudiptasarkar7941]

Tried -sp but it still checks ... Don't know why

[@tenkenxsou]

Was stuck trying to update for ages, thanks! Besides, straight to the point... My kind of tutorial

[@DanielConnor]

After trying all manner of different methods this was clearly explained and, best of all , worked, Thank you.

[@MikeDancy]

Glad it helped.

[@aswinarms6784]

Thank's a lot bro, I've tried several ways using other cmd tricks and no luck, and after following this method it worked perfectly, I'm using a Delltitude E6230 within the battery condition not detected, battery not present, neither in Bios nor in Windows. Thanks again, you are awesome. 👌👌👌

[@poly-pheme]

Even technicians told me this was not possible without a new battery, thank you.

[@dexrule-hw2yd]

Thank you so much 🙏🏼 it's worked on dell Inspiron 7566 ( no battery) , I tried every thing but your way was the best ❤❤❤

[@jasonross8434]

/forceit makes no difference to me, still get the no battery warning! any ideas?

[@wa_kandaforever]

Same here, doesn't work

[@andrewfrancis8229]

Had to like and subscribe to this. It definitely worked. Trying to update the video driver as well tho. This is a E6520. Can't see some of the dropdown menus in programs like steam. any recommendations?

[@yasmine666yass]

I was struggling, very helpfull, thanks

[@clone1918]

Thank you sooo much. I needed a video like this on my Alienware M17 after my battery died. Got a new subscriber from me :D

[@seancargill5340]

Trying to figure out if a bios update is why my battery won’t charge on my m15, did you have a similar issue?

[@clone1918]

@@seancargill5340 my battery is as dead as it can get lol. the video helped me force the update on the bios and my laptop runs a lot smoother now.

[@J.T323]

Thank you so much,worked like a charm...

[@sudiptasarkar7941]

Sir thank you very much ... But for lenovo IdeaPad 80sm it is still saying that battery needs to be above 30% ... If there is any other way to resolve it ?

[@mee7730]

It worked 100% thanks brother.

[@lawrencemeli2684]

It Worked! Thank you so much.👍👍👍

[@Legendary3eaz]

I wish we can show picture proof of this working, I took my battery out personally like 2 years ago and couldn't update bios for the longest, THANK YOU💪🏾💪🏾

[@MikeDancy]

So it worked? That’s good to hear. I’ll dig around to see if I have any other dead battery laptops.

[@abdullahshaheen8979]

After installing the bios update when laptop restart there's no information of flash progress on my laptop and when laptop turns on i go to system information to check whether my bios is updated or not .then i see it's been same nothing change happened to it

[@hundalharkiratsingh]

Thank you brother it was amazing

[@sugankarthickc763]

Yeah i tried tha same method but once the pc restarts it shows error 8716 : invalid usageplz help me

[@serriahb2773]

Thaaaaaank you soooooo much! Worked like a charm. You Rock!

[@MikeDancy]

I do indeed rock.

[@jimbob5892]

Thank You!!!!!!!! it worked like a charm.I had bought a new battery and charger

[@shawnprosper9362]

thanks for sharing!

[@madhveshkashyap427]

Thank you so much 🙏 it saved my day buddy god bless you ❤

[@Christos-Georgiou]

im doing just as you our but my asus says is not recocgnized as internal or external command can you please help thank you

[@MattersNot]

How do you find the bios that your using to force

[@Rameezation]

Thankyou for the upload... I have a question if anyone can please answer. My lenovo t460s do not restart automatically whenever i restart manually or after any update installation i have to press the power on button to startup the pc. will it work ?

[@cava3563]

It won't fork for me, i tried this before and not working nothing pops up, i took the laptop to the servicer and he tried the same and i can not find battery just to use like 5 min for this is there any other option?

[@bad2thebone244]

Hi when I move the file into dell folder it's not showing in cmd?

[@kiettuan8443]

please help, my dell Precision 7520 still not complete with the boot screen, Flash Process Failed. I did every steps, the window screen showed the same as your vid but no luck with the "Black Dell Logo Screen"

[@_mohdfaridz]

thank you for the guide

[@parmarthbhil8474]

thanks a lot, it worked well... thanks again sir

[@addgamesrl4158]

respect bro you helped me so much

[@fslopez1811]

Thank u bro. Lov u

[@tuongminh3718]

Hi, glad i've found your video after watching tons of stupid videos. I just wanna say that it actually works and have a nice day man 🙏

[@MikeDancy]

Glad to hear that. All my other videos show things that don’t work :)

[@geraldmcclure7491]

Great Video and worked an OLD ACER ASPIRE with DEAD Battery. Just had to watch it several times for the exact entries in CMD. Would like to make a cheat sheet with exact CMD Promp's proper order. I will have to watch it again sveral times to catch the prompts to get them all right the first time; THANK YOU

[@MikeDancy]

Awesome. Glad it worked out. I don’t make a lot of laptop videos any more but I’m glad when they come in handy

[@ff-sv5qs]

my bios file has not exe extension (precisely it has extension .303) how do? thank you

[@raotanzeel8715]

Not working for my pc Inspiron 3542. Can you tell me the solution please?

[@antonyronald3142]

You are awesome ! It worked

[@net-angel]

Awesome! Works perfectly Save me from buying another battery 😊

[@nasershariatpanah7766]

Please let me know from what DIOS version you updated the laptop to A24. I got the exact model which runs the A13 version. I'd like to know if it is better to do all updates one after one or if it will be ok if I update directly to A24. Thank you

[@MikeDancy]

The A24 can be installed directly. It will contain past updates too.

[@wiiperico]

wow great video, just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot. I have a question: I bought 16 gb of RAM (which is the maximum supported by my laptop) but when I install the new RAM it doesn't recognizes it... So I read that I have to uptdate the bios. Am I right?

[@MikeDancy]

You need ram to access the bios usually. Did you get the right speed of ram?

[@shekinah1734]

hi! can anybody answer this cos i really need help: is it possible to update windows on laptop without the battery, but plugged in?

[@gashahundaka8768]

Thank you sir It works

[@ravindraadapa2952]

Is this work on any dell laptop or specific model S? Sir

[@AnishKumar-xf6em]

Hi sir I have dell latitude e6430 I try to flash downgrade My bios version A22 to A13 After this process my display is not show What can i do Plz suggest me

[@Ghostlymist]

I have the same issue... ive done this method before, but it doesn't work. After i forceit it just gives me the same error

[@JULIAN97031]

Hello, is it possible do it on Toshiba Satellite S45?

[@southernpoop]

Well darn. I ran cmd admin but it still wouldn’t let me do it w/ out battery. Inspiron 15 3537 with windows 8.1

[@oyeahoj5328]

If I dont love this I would be a dead man, your a great man bro

[@Greybic]

After /forcit I was presented with "please enter the admin password to proceed with the flash" but this is exactly why I'm flashing the bios lol, because it's admin locked and sata controller is stuck in raid and I cant get my nvme m.2 to show up anywhere so I can install windows. Dell latitude 7400, Any and all insight would be marvelous, thank you sir.

[@sohailashraf021]

Thank you so much man, 🎉❤ It Works For me.. I Have Dell Latitude 6420 and no battery 😅

[@papaipeter9981]

I did exatly what you say, but the end it says “Unknown command” :/

[@user-br2qm9xe5l]

It worked thanks a lot

[@phytagor]

good thing I happened to found this video.. nice information.. so, I think my battery or any other components that deal with power on my laptop got overheat(?).. already took my laptop to any service center, and got the battery replaced... for short time, there was nothing wrong with my laptop, but several months later the battery somehow couldn't be detected even though the battery life is still relatively new... and it seems I need to update either the OS or the bios to fix this... you guessed it, I couldn't update the bios because the system couldn't detect the battery, and I'm stucked now..

[@MikeDancy]

Did this work for you?

[@phytagor]

@@MikeDancy I haven't tried it yet.. but I'll try it as soon as I can..

[@phytagor]

@@MikeDancy update : it seems that this steps couldn't fix my problem.. my laptop is Acer aspire E5-475G.. I've tried several other solutions, but no result so far... I'll try another tricks if I could find another free time..

[@IkaikaKahoano]

"Whoa, you're like amazing, dude" - music store worker from Wayne's World. You - "Thanks...I like to play...ting."

[@diegoace9854]

I did that but after the update it wont turnon it finished no problem but for some reason it won't turn on 😢

[@omarlakhdar6381]

Thank you ❤️

[@Rinours]

Thank u so so so much

[@Hicky33]

Sir, on Dell Inspiron 15 3521 it just opens the InsydeFlash like in normal running with the AC/battery warning.

[@MoisesXD-yx6hg]

Cambie batery :v no inglis , litio 3v

[@serenedives]

Can you give me if u have dell 5110 A11 bios bin file please

[@Elsisi.sharmoot.sahyooni]

It does work on some models not all

[@royparker2209]

I am using a dell xps 14 and trying to update the BIOS. my problem is that when you click on the bios update it opens up a wizard of sorts to actually install the update, and then the error pops up.... so running through cmd will just populate the wizard and then the error persists. any experience with that issue?

[@MikeDancy]

nope. sounds like you should take it into a shop. there isn't much of a fee for that.

[@acelustssp1271]

haha same issue the error pops after the wizard. We gotta buy new battery mate 😂 -- ( I am using DELL Inspiron N5110)

[@codingandtech5909]

How do I update the BIOS of my Dell latitude E5470. Currently the BIOS version is 1.22.3 installed on 2/17/2020. The latest BIOS for update is of version 1.33.3 which is released on 09 Nov 2022. Should I install this update or do I upgrade one step at a time as there are many versions available before the current latest version. My question or consern is can I skip all the updates and directly install the latest BIOS version. There are 9 BIOS version available before the latest 09 Nov 2022 version. So I am confused as how to go about installing these BIOS updates. I don't want to end up corrupting windows or motherboard.

[@MikeDancy]

Google “Dell support assistant” and install that then run the updater. It will handle all the updates for you.

[@mrstolendonghua6227]

Thanks just updated my old dell E6530

[@mrrasooli3614]

Helpful 🎉

[@matthewonyeka6867]

You're the BEST.❤

[@_dj_dubz_]

I did this and still getting the message any thoughts?

[@TheDantes12345]

I did this and it is still looking for the battery and plug popup

[@Jacob-gg4ou]

Thank you

[@PinGraphics]

Ok, here's a new one. Tried updating the BIOS with: 1. The normal .exe install procedure. It was a fail as we know, the 10% battery issue. 2. Tried /forceit and i get the "Running on an unsupported system" error, but it is the right file. 3. Tried the Temp method and I couldn't see any folder made by the exe file 4. Tried installing by flashing BIOS (finally saw the usb flash file after resetting BIOS to default settings) but there I have the 10% battery issue. Any workarounds? I'm out of ideas

[@mahmoudshalaby9217]

hello. is there is any other solution?

[@ArcherThe2nd]

When I run the forceit command, it opens the bios update but then shows me "An unexpected error occured while running the flash application. Please reboot and try again. If the error continues, please contact technical help. Application error return: 0x00000406" my laptop is dell precision m6500

[@melodychi3530]

check bios guard settings in bios maybe?

[@uchihakakashi421]

I have a problem relating to this please if you can help me please reply me so i can tell you the problem 😭🙏

[@meenurose7315]

Thank You

[@intothedragon]

my BIOS update file is not a .EXE. I can't install it with this method. Anyone know how to do it? its an ASUS laptop

[@HmaDi007]

it still showing 10battery error on Inspiron 15R 5521

[@Harddoc]

I tried using forcite but it was shown as an unknown cmd

[@HelmetReacts]

Watching this in 2023 for my Alienware. It worked 💪

[@ahmedhafez5641]

I haven't dell folder .. what i do ?

[@poly-pheme]

Any way to downgrade bios without battery?

[@aatrox5559]

Work many tanks

[@tim5104]

If the ASUS laptop needs to update the BIOS, but there is no battery, you can try to enter ez flash, before clicking the BIOS update file, press and hold F11, and then press the BIOS update file, so that you can skip the battery check renew.

[@blanksoul]

Is it still work for reinstall bios?

[@Emawatzonzz]

Is it work for Alienware product? I had old AW r2 15 with dead battery to

[@xiao_ling...]

Did it work? Same situation here 17 r5

[@Emawatzonzz]

@@xiao_ling... not working bro 😔

[@xiao_ling...]

Did you somehow update your bios?

[@JaneAria]

Who needs an internal battery when you have a UPS that'll last 4 hours powering the fridge

[@kylehanneman6438]

Didn't work. Still told me I was unable to download it because battery is to low

[@user-kv2vy5xk7y]

after the all commands , it says unknow command.

[@KamalKumar-uy8fm]

It works

[@bobby4363]

does not work for newer Support assist. Loops around to Dell Utility and give the battery error again.

[@MikeDancy]

Okay. Good to know. I haven’t had that issue with a new one yet

[@FistWater]

I use dell inspiron 5537 and it is not working

[@marlonlozada3048]

tried this but it still checks for the battery... in my case it reads C:\lenovo>6uuj20us.exe -sp lenovo is the folder i made on my c drive for this. Thx in advance

[@lutfi3013]

I got error

[@Jsino_6651]

I have XPS M1210 nothing works

[@gettech2063]

Best video

[@davidclarke427]

Will this work for Windows 10 updates on laptop with a dead battery

[@MikeDancy]

You should be able to do Windows update even with a dead battery. It's the BIOS update that requires a full charge and/or a battery

[@lucasrodrigez8088]

the battery is not detected after the update

[@FlyboyHelosim]

I really wish the /forceit command would work on other firmware update tools other than the BIOS.

[@Harddoc]

It didn’t work for me it said unknown cmd

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@Harddoc This only works on Dell computers, and probably only certain ones.

[@lambo_centernario9064]

Looks like it would definitely work for others, but while trying to update my yoga 530 it didn’t work. I am trying to fix the problem of the laptop not identifying the laptop by updating bios

[@davidnunes7908]

i get invalid option error select option *no options pop up

[@Kam2eLeon]

"Invalid Option. Check the option." on Samsung + Phoenix BIOS update. :(

[@IkaikaKahoano]

Doesn't work on an inspiron 3521. It just opens InsydeFlash like normal. I was really hoping it would work.

[@user-lf8iv5vz3v]

did you find a solution yet? mine does the same thing

[@IkaikaKahoano]

@@user-lf8iv5vz3v You have to buy a new battery.

[@i-tunes2025]

@@IkaikaKahoano the same trouble. i'm at a dead end

[@IkaikaKahoano]

@@i-tunes2025 I ended up having to get a new battery then it worked.

[@i-tunes2025]

@@IkaikaKahoano thanks, that laptop is from work, I don't like Idea to buy the battery from myself