I have an nx9010 with the KH.F.09 BIOS. Newest version is KH.F.25. Common sense says I should upgrade, but I don't want to brick this laptop.
Is it generally safe to do this?
Should I upgrade my BIOS?
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With newer computers, much safer than it was with the old style, boot from floppy things.
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Why is it so goddamned hard to get little assholes like you to admit it when you fuck up? Is it pride? What gives you the right to have any pride?
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GOP message? Why don't they just come out of the closet: FASCISTS R' US –Patrick Degan
The GOP has a problem with anyone coming out of the closet. –18-till-I-die
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If it works, do not mess with it.
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"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
Update your BIOS from a floppy. Never do it from Windows - I tried it once, and it ended up turning my motherboard into useless scrap.Bounty wrote:That'd be very comforting if HP didn't recommend upgrading via floppy because the Windows-based updater is flakyEdi wrote:With newer computers, much safer than it was with the old style, boot from floppy things.
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The reason I'd update is because I've been told the newer BIOS handles the fans far more efficiently and because it *might* fix a problem with Linux thinking there's a non-existant heat problem. Believe you me, I wouldn't even think about messing with the BIOS for no reason.Faram wrote:If it works, do not mess with it.
That policy has saved my but on many occations.
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Can't say that I've had a problem flashing from wnidows with any computer I've had in the last 5 or 6 years. Thuogh my old Gigabyte socket A included a second bios chip, I suppose as a safeguard against such accidents, but that was some 5 years ago. I haven't had a computer with a floppy drive in the last 4 years, do people even get them in computers anymore?Exonerate wrote:Update your BIOS from a floppy. Never do it from Windows - I tried it once, and it ended up turning my motherboard into useless scrap.Bounty wrote:That'd be very comforting if HP didn't recommend upgrading via floppy because the Windows-based updater is flakyEdi wrote:With newer computers, much safer than it was with the old style, boot from floppy things.
I got a floppy drive, only because it came with card readers, but that's beside the point because my mobo only updates by a windows (or possibly linux) flash program. I only updated my BIOS when I had a problem. If you don't have a problem, probably better not to update your BIOS.
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