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gpstarman via Linux

1 year ago (Received 8 months ago)

gpstarman
1 year ago (Received 8 months ago)

Updating BIOS via Linux ?

How to update BIOS on a system that only use Linux as OS.

Asking this because some clowns at Acer decided that they will only provide BIOS updates through Windows Update.

Edit: I'm not talking about installing the BIOS file. They don't even provide BIOS file in the first place.

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Evil_incarnate

in reply to gpstarman 1 year ago (Received 8 months ago)

I had an Acer laptop once. I had Ubuntu on it. I had problems with random crashing after a few minutes, I ran memtest, it took a few hours for a full test and came back with a whole slew of faults. I sent it to Acer under warranty and they told me that Linux was the problem and I should leave windows on it.

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in reply to Evil_incarnate 1 year ago (Received 8 months ago)

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Nanook

in reply to gpstarman 8 months ago

@gpstarman I only use Asus and Gigabyte boards, both have the ability to flash the BIOS using the maintenance engine on the board without even having a CPU or memory installed, let alone an OS booted.

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