Yesterday I updated my Insprion 546 WIn 7 Home 64 Bit computer from the drivers section. I used updates R289543 -Dell Support Center; R219774 - Audio; I546-A11 - BIOS; R230060 - Video. In that order. After all updates, and reboots, everything was fine. I then downloaded a zip file less than 10 minutes later, and started getting a warning window that said I needed to backup my C:\ Drive because my hard drive might have been damaged. I closed it. And got it two more times before I selected the option not to be notified. Backing up my files myself, I then ran a check disk on my harddrive. I shut it down and restarted it up to run checkdisk. Now, upon startup, I get a message from AMI (American Megatrends) that my hard disk Self Monitoring Systems has reported a parameter has exceeded normal operating ranges, and there might be a hard drive problem. I then must press F2, and that takes me to the menu with BIOS info, and boot order, etc. Exiting without saving, I can then use my computer as normal. Checkdisk came back perfectly fine.
I'm guessing there's a BIOS problem. If so, how do i fix it? How do I go back to the previous BIOS? If not, what's up? How did my hard drive get damaged, and how do I get the AMI message to not show up every time I start up my machine if it's not damaged?
