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Can one manufacturer's uefi updater/flasher (.exe) be used for other manufacturers' devices?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tyuu84/comment/i3vfve2/
According to this comment, it is okay to "grab a Lenovo uefi update pack" and extract the .exe uefi flasher from it, then ...
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How long can BIOS update take?
I have Asus X-570 E-Gaming.
The mobo was showing green Q-LED today, I came to know it's because of failed boot. So, I'm updating the BIOS(firmware or host boot software). The size of the flash file is ...
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How to update BIOS on Acer SF314-42 without Windows installed?
The official website has a new version of BIOS for my laptop. The download from the website is a zip archive, which contains an executable and a README.txt, which instructs to click the executable ...
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Where is my BIOS chip? (Image)
I'm trying to flash my Toshiba Satellite C660-1ZM with a self compiled BIOS update, however I can't seem to locate the chip.
Solutions tried:
Looking at the motherboard schematic: I can't find any ...
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Flashing a Firmware to a router which doesnt have an "upgrade" page in its website interface
i need to flash my router because it is missing a lot of options in the configurations because my ISP installed their custom firmware,and the problem is i cant find the "upgrade" page because they ...
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My TP-Link (TL-WA701ND) Bricked
Welcome everyone, Today I was working to restore my access point TL-WA701ND to its original firmare from DD-WRT after taking the right steps my access point LEDs ar blinking (four LEDs at once except ...
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Dell Type C Dock WD15 has Blinking Monitor
Dell has a knowledge base article addressing this blinking monitor problem. It is about updating drivers and flashing the firmware of the dock. I have two problems with the instructions in that ...
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How to disable or remove Intel SMM?
I have successfully removed Intel ME from the firmware by reflashing the BIOS using corna's tool:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
However I am still concerned about SMM. Intel ME and AMT ...
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Is Acer Aspire Recovery equivalent to External Flashing?
Is the Acer Aspire Recovery method (Fn+Esc) equivalent to externally flashing the BIOS?
What I am asking is that for example if the BIOS were write protected you could not flash it via a software ...
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Alienware m17x r2 not booting up
My believe my BIOS is bricked. I was flashing my BIOS and power was interrupted. It never went off when power was interrupted. And being a novice, I tried to forcefully power it down still nothing ...
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Updating megaraid firmware - errors?
I'm trying to update the firmware on an LSI 926x series card from current version (2009) to latest (v12.15?). I've tried the standard commands using "storcli" and "storcli64" in Windows cmd prompt (...
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Is the N600, C3700 cable of running an alternative firmware?
I've been exploring WW-DRT and openwrt.org. I can find information on how to Flash WNDR3700 but nothing much appears to come up on this particular module N600, C3700.
Question:
To flash a open ...
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ASUS RT-AC66R hard reset
Have an ASUS RT-AC66R - we had set it up for our church and was working flawlessly. I was approached last sunday to say it was not connecting (2014-01-19). We had set it with the 2.5 and 5 Ghz ...
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Is it possible to update BIOS to UEFI?
I just ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant on an older machine (just for fun) and was informed that due to lack of UEFI firmware, Secure Boot would not be supported.
Is it possible for motherboard ...
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A-Data firmware remains old after update
I'm running A-Data S599 SSD on my Apple Mac Pro running Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate in Apple BootCamp.
The flasher is updating the drive ok, but when it finish I got BSOD. After rebooting the system I ...
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Third party firmware for WPN824? [closed]
My router recently developed some sort of DHCP malfunction so I decided to flash the firmware. And being the geek that I am I figured, while I'm flashing it, why not upgrade it? However, finding a ...
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