Hi all, hope someone's either seen this before or experienced it...
Basically I bought a Dell Mini 10v from one of the DF members on here which had a tri-boot (Linux, Win, OS X). I've since flattened it and made it a pure Hackintosh with OS X, but I've hit a problem...
I left it in Hibernation and forgot all about it, and the battery's drained itself completely. The only way I can power it up and use it is to run it from mains with the battery disconnected. If I try to power it up from battery power, the white power LED cycles its colours like a disco and tells me that it cannot identify the battery!
"WARNING: The battery cannot be identified. This system will be unable to charge it's battery. Strike F1 to continue".
I've read on other forums that it's because the BIOS is above A04 (currently A06) so I've followed instruction up to a point where I've made a bootable dos USB key but the A04 BIOS downgrade needs to run in Windows.
I'm hoping I don't have to flatten it, install a Windows OS to run the exe, then reinstall OS X!! Is there any way round this? I know my chances are slim, but there's some clever people out there.
My thought was (correct me if I'm wrong) - download a Windows thumbstick image then run the exe that way - will this work do you think?
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