Best Of

I hesitate to mention this because I'm not able to provide the kind of advanced support you're going to need if you decide to go through with it. That said, the complaint you're seeing is almost certainly that your motherboard's BIOS does not have the processor model-specific microcode for the CPU you have installed but contains a generic Intel microcode capable of booting the computer. Using a specialized tool, you can extract the microcode from a copy of the 1737 BIOS you downloaded from Dell and load it into a copy of the 1735 BIOS to be flashed onto the computer. All warranties are now void of course. I've done this a couple of times but not in recent memory; the main thing is to figure out which company programmed the BIOS (AMI, American Megatrends, et al) and search on Google for BIOS hacking tools specific to that BIOS type. If you're lucky, you may also be able to find a how-to for performing a BIOS microcode update on a BIOS of the same type as what you're using. If this sounds scary, I'd suggest just learning to live with needing to click through that prompt every time you boot up.