mandrake 9.2 and my Dell inspiron 8200 (Score 1)

what a complete nightmare, first I discover, that I now have to register with Dell.com and give them my computers "system tag" if I want to download Bios and driver updates, and then once I get the bios update, I find out..... YOU NEED WINDOWS XP TO UPGRADE THE BIOS WTF OMGWTF OMG. very frustrating, im only updating the bios because I cant seem to get mandrake to install, and im out of ideas, and then ohhh dell.com ohhhh Dell.coM! how I hate you!!!!! Someone start a rally! bring down dell.com and there windows xp needin bios to updatea gaengajNj! GRRRRR!