I wanted to thank you all for your help and provide an update. Everyone I've spoken to about this was confused that the Alienware R11 required OEM RAM to proceed with a BIOS update. There is no logical reason for it that they know of other than some programmer was directed to implement it this way, which is probably what happened? What I've been doing to eventually get to BIOS version 1.04 is first running the patch, letting it fail, then restoring the computer to what it supposedly shipped with by downgrading to 16GB of Alienware memory. The BIOS patch then works. The memory I'm using for the patch may or may not be the exact two modules it shipped with, it is what I was given to try when I asked for help. They could have been pulled from a floor model for all I know. The store has been extremely helpful in getting this taken care of. When I repeated this process to update from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 the BIOS patch worked just fine with the 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX modules installed. So hopefully this means it no longer checks for original OEM memory before patching. I'll have to see what happens on the next BIOS update. If it starts to happen again maybe the patch code could be modified. We shall see.
Hello everyone, I bought my Alienware Aurora R11 from a Best Buy store. It was an impulse buy caused by the pandemic of 2020-2021 as I am now working from home fulltime and I needed a better computer. It is also an early retirement gift for myself - two more years to go!  I had them upgrade my memory to 32GB as part of my initial purchase. I was told the R11's memory can only be configured as either 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128GB so I choose the middle amount. They put in 2x16GB 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX modules, leaving room for future expansion as only two of the four slots are in use. The only other thing I purchased was a WD Blue 1TB SSD (which I installed myself).  The current system specs are: BIOS version 1.0.0Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700F CPU @ 2.90GHzNVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER32GB Memory (2x16GB modules)1TB SSD / 1TB HDD / 256GB SSDAlienware Mouse AW510KAlienware Keyboard AW610M The computer, mouse, and keyboard are the the lunar light version, in case that matters. When I try to update the computer it wants me to install BIOS update 1.0.3. Upon starting the installation I get a non-qualified memory detected error (see image below) and the BIOS will not update. I was hoping someone could tell me what this means? Notes:1) The memory passes all diagnostic testing.2) I do not know why the BIOS updater error message specifically wants Kingston memory - especially since my computer did not come with it?3) I do not have any other DDR4 memory to try and swap it out with as the other computers in my house are older and use DDR3.4) I could not find BIOS versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 anywhere on the Dell web site to try and update the BIOS sequentially which was the first thing I thought to try. Is there a link to them?  The computer runs perfectly so I'm not really eager to try something that might cause it to die. Thank you in advance for any ideas or suggestions you may have.   [IMAGE]
Aurora R11, BIOS update, non-Qualified XMP memory error