8 Jan
2010
8 Jan
'10
5:06 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Adrian Glaubitz adrian.glaubitz@googlemail.com wrote:
IIRC the newer Dell OptiPlex series have a special way for flashing the BIOS. You use a Dell-provided utility to copy the new BIOS image into a special (non-volatile?) memory, then reboot the machine. Once it reboots, it will automatically start to flash.
wow, how ... special. So you have no visibility into the reflash process and no idea of its progress.
This is the default mode for many new BIOSes, I understand, since so many of them are EFI at the core. It's not an improvement for the customer, but it's what the vendors are going to provide. It's very disappointing.
ron