who the fuck think it’s a good idea to push bios update via windows update?, it can’t even get video driver update right. Before you flaming me for using microslop windows this is my brother laptop not mine

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      91·
      1 day ago

      Luckily this time it didn’t fry the bios chip, but I wasted 2 hours fucking around and waiting for dell diagnostic tool to complete

        • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
          51·
          1 day ago

          Yeah sometimes maybe some laptop it will hardbrick your bios chip, require programer to reflash or replace the chip

          • adarza@lemmy.ca
            6·
            1 day ago

            i’ve had to deal with two bricked dell all-in-one systems due to failed automatic bios updates. to their credit, they did repair those (shipping both ways, motherboard replacements) at no cost despite being out of warranty. but it did take some time for them to reach that resolution–both users had already replaced the systems with something else by the time they got word of the repairs being covered. that was years ago (7-8? maybe). the culprit then was dell’s own update software, not windows update.

            i still cringe whenever i see a bios update screen that i didn’t initiate myself. at least my own systems are mostly way too old to have bios updates pushed out for them by microsoft or lvfs.