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grawlinson on June 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: ASUS delivers BIOS/UEFI auto-updates over HTTP wit...

You require Windows regardless. I have an old HP dm1z that's started playing up with a recent Linux release.

Solution? New BIOS firmware. Problem? Can only update via Windows binary.

I wish I was joking, but quite a few HP laptops can only be updated via Windows binaries...

qb45 on June 6, 2016 [–]

Solution: buy computers with "generic" motherboards, not OEM boxes.

I have had like 5 different motherboards in the last 10 years and all could be updated from a flash drive with the BIOS setup.

And yes, this required user action, they didn't just automatically flash random files from pendrives present during POST ;)

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