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Hello Daddle I spent some time trying to decide whether to pursue this idea of using Windows 8.1 as a means of getting the BIOS update thats on the Medion website to work, and Ive decided against it. The balance of advice seems to be that its best not to attempt a bios update unless you are definitely going to get an improvement you need, or definitely resolve an issue that you have, because of the consequences of it going wrong. I agree with you that the problem is something to do with configuration, and if I was able to update the bios, I think its very unlikely that it would resolve the issue. My last strategy will be to attach a second monitor, and see what affect that has. ... View more

Hi Daddle I followed your instructions for the RC discharge, and I'm afraid that it didn't fix the problem. I will look into your suggestion about the MCT, which I don't know anything about, and I will get back to you. regards, Bigman1974 ... View more

I will try the residual current discharge tomorrow. I only have product keys for Windows 10 and 7 (the original OS), so to try 8.1 I would probably have to buy it? That's not very attractive, as I've no guarantee that it will work. I'll let you know how I get on. regards, Bigman1974 ... View more

"Why not? Thats what I wrote. It's useless if one supports and the other doesn't stick to  it!"   The above came as a surprise, but you may not have realised that I haven't attempted to run the program again since you posted the administrator advice. I have run it as administrator now, and I still got the error message "No Bios can be flashed". I also checked that the laptop was fully charged.  I  had to run it in Safe Mode because of the blank screen problem at startup/restart. Using the Diagnostic startup didn't allow me to "yo-yo" in and out of sleep mode (my work around to get the display back on). regards, bigman1974 ... View more

Hi Daddle, and thanks a lot for your advice. 1. The laptop would have been close to 100%, as the power supply has been connected continuously for some time (its fully charged at this moment) 2. No, I didn't "run as Administrator". I will try that. 3. I will try the Diagnostic Startup regards, bigman1974     ... View more

Hi Daddle and thanks for your response. I did extract the downloaded file to C://Medion, giving me the executable  A15MD.302.EXE, and it was running that file that gave me the "can't run" error. I did find some conflicting information about the environment in which to run it, with some people advising against running it from Windows. Medion said this was ok as long as there were no programs running in background, but I found a long list of these at start up, some of which I wasn't allowed to close. So I have two questions: 1. Can I be certain that this bios update is OK to install and won't do any damage ? (I am not talking about power issues). 2.  What is the safest environment to run the update (e.g. Safe Mode, Command Prompt) ?. I did look at the Command Prompt option, but in Windows 10 but that has just an X:/ directory and I could not find the C:/Medion folder. Also, I don't think that the in situ Bios itself has a flash utility.   Please advise if you are able to help with my questions. Thank you  :o)   ... View more

Hi When I got a clean install of Windows 10 (previously 7) I had a few hitches and after tech help from Microsoft, Im left with the display staying blank when it should be displaying the lock screen. Microsoft blame the Bios, so I set about trying to find a Bios update. Inputting MSN 30012974 I get version 3.02 on the Medion drivers list, but when I tried to run the unpacked .exe, I got an error saying it could not run. My current bios version is 209 dated 4/7/2011 (simbios version 2.6) Should this work on my laptop or could I be doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.  :o))     ... View more