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Inspiron 3891 Ram Issues Fixed?
Dell rolled out a new bios upgrade today, v 1.60. Have users who posted having conflicts not booting without using one stick of shipped ram been addressed and fixed with this upgrade? I have a 3891 arriving within the next few days and I already ordered Crucial ram upgrade.
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Chspkby
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April 18th, 2022 12:00
I received my Inspiron 3891 on Friday 4-15-22. Performed all the updates yada yada and installed my two 8gb sticks of Crucial ram and the PC boots fine. Saturday my PC decided it wanted to update the bios to v 1.5.0 and I was like great, here we go. Happy to say no problemo after update. Loving this PC so far and sorry others ran in to a problem with their 3891's.
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April 12th, 2022 17:00
All the BIOS 1.6.0 update page says is "Firmware updates to address security vulnerabilities."
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April 18th, 2022 12:00
@Chspkby Did you update to BIOS v1.5.0 or to the latest, v1.6.0?
And what BIOS version was installed when you got this PC?
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April 18th, 2022 14:00
Firstly, I purchased this PC as a refurbished like new, not from Dell. The PC came with BIOS v1.3 something and Windows 10. Within 15 minutes of 1st boot I received the "Your computer can run Windows 11" and I upgraded to that. After that was done, I replaced the 12gb ram that came with the PC and installed my new Crucial (2) 8gb ram. Besides that, I replaced the 256gb NVMe drive that came with the PC with a 512gb one and did a clean install of Windows 11. Updates did its thing and I did not check off any other "Optional Updates" although that showed a few driver updates and the BIOS 1.5.0 update. On Saturday after using the PC for awhile I went to check updates and as soon as the update window came up I was greeted with a Dell system update 1.5.0 has started. Please do not power off your computer. That's where I am at now. 1.5.0. Long answer I know, but now you have the facts sir, just the facts LOL
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April 18th, 2022 17:00
@Chspkby - Facts, nothing but them facts...
So you essentially did a clean OS install by letting it update to Win 11 before you upgraded the RAM.
I wonder if that's a fix for the problem where retail RAM won't work unless one OEM stick is installed...
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April 18th, 2022 18:00
@Chspkby - You could disable Dell SupportAssist and Dell Update, so they won't update BIOS automatically.
And you could also disable UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates in BIOS setup which should prevent Windows Update from force-installing any new BIOS updates on this PC.
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April 18th, 2022 18:00
Pretty much yes. As far as a "fix" I really don't know but wish I did to help others. Perhaps someone who has some time can give it a shot.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that when the day comes that BIOS v1.6.0 is flashed to my system, everything still works as it does now.
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April 19th, 2022 17:00
I didn't install the Dell Support Assist or Dell Update apps with my clean install of Windows 11, and thank you for your advice on that and the BIOS setting