• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Why do that? Can’t you just put the BIOS update on the USB drive and just update through the BIOS itself? That’s what I do, and I find it much safer than doing it through Windows because a Windows update happening could ruin everything (and since I rarely boot into Windows, that’s a pretty high chance of happening).

    Some motherboard vendors may not distribute them that way, but if they do, that’s my preferred route.

    • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      laptop bios updates are usually .exe files if the stock build ships with wendoze on it. I don’t make the rules unfortunately. you have an old dell or lenovo that you converted to a linux machine, you have to deal with the devil occasionally.

      just run windows to go off a pendrive and you don’t have to worry about it stinking up your default drive and taking up valuable space.