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A Lenovo Legion Go BIOS update is bricking handhelds, and out-of-warranty repairs aren't cheap
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/a-lenovo-legion-go-bios-update-is-bricking-handhelds-and-out-of-warranty-repairs-arent-cheap
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halfapage lemmy.world halfapage@lemmy.world
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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-04
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halfapage wrote:
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The OS will stage it, and the update will actually happen on reboot.

If you're using a Linux system, you probably have fwupd installed, which can pull down BIOS updates for various attached devices, including motherboard BIOSes. I'm sure that Windows has some analog.
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halfapage lemmy.world halfapage@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-20
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tal wrote:
The OS will stage it, and the update will actually happen on reboot. If you're using a Linux system, you probably have fwupd installed, which can pull down BIOS updates for various attached devices, including motherboard BIOSes. I'm sure that Windows has some analog.
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Taasz/Woof lemmy.blahaj.zone MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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halfapage wrote:
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Yes that's standard, as far as I know every x86 PC updates the BIOS this way.
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Björn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
Joined: 2023-07-08
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halfapage wrote:
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Even in DOS days you could flash it from the running system. It was so common that for a while flashing a vendor's BIOS update entailed booting from a DOS bootdisk.
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