On 12/14/24 4:27 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Cannot seem to update bios from A09 to A13 on Inspiron 660s.. Do you think Win11 is holding up the process? Process displays a 'successful' message though. After powercycle + bios entry, no joy. Going to reread and look more deeply into suggestions on viewing output.. as bios installer executes....
Oh, That's a big "dunno?". I've managed to steer clear of Win11 so far, and with the kids out of the house, will likely be able to stay clear of it as well. Bios installers are pretty good at not displaying "successful" unless the write of the required number of bytes to the bios has actually succeeded. I don't have a lot of "new" hardware, I simply don't have any need for it. Yes, AVX512 extensions would be nice for C, but AVX is fine. Now newer bioses (those withing the past 8-10 years, often have copies of the actual bios code stored to provided a way to recover if something goes wrong. It would be worth going though your bios carefully to see if there isn't more than one copy and whether the copy to use can be selected. These are educated GUESSES. So don't take this a gospel. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.