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Updating Laptop Bios
soo as the title says, does updating laptop bios manually will have high risk?? can anyone please enlighten me >....,<
07-06-2012 06:47 AM
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RE: Updating Laptop Bios
Depends on the laptop

Acer released an update for certain radeon gpu enabled laptops a few years back that completely ruined the machine for many. it took almost a year for me to find a panic recovery flash tool to recover that notebook

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ohh so its safer not to update the bios of my acer laptop? and i was just curios in having my laptop bios updated ^....,^
07-06-2012 06:55 AM
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RE: Updating Laptop Bios
the newer acers use a different bios type, so its generally ok.

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well my acer laptop is model is acer aspire AS4750G-2412G64Mnbb is it okay for me to manually update the bios??
07-06-2012 07:22 AM
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its phoenix bios with an insyde recovery module

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Generally bios flashing is risk-free as long as you follow instructions. People always harp "don't update if you have no problems!" but I've only had 1 brick and that was due to user error.
07-06-2012 07:26 AM
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hmm i don't really understand but is it okay for this model to be updated in the latest bios??
07-06-2012 07:26 AM
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moving to hardware discussion

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RE: Updating Laptop Bios
i "rarely" update my HP Pavillion dv7 laptop's bios using their provided software(HP update) w/o a problems and it take roughly 3/4 hour did twiced already.

(07-06-2012 06:47 AM)devilscorner Wrote:  does updating laptop bios manually will have high risk?? can anyone please enlighten me >....,<
*yes there is a risk just be warned since you in our same territory has prone to brownout you need to power-plug-ined in a "UPS" unit w/ your laptop battery at full charged to proceed w/ the bios update.
*interrupting the update may bricked your laptop's bios as imminent make it impossible to boot on the next use such as anomality of sudden restart/shut down

(07-06-2012 07:22 AM)devilscorner Wrote:  acer aspire AS4750G-2412G64M
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how much did you bought that laptop(in PHP) that is a quite-a-decent SB-CPU w/a Nvidia dedicated card...

My PC for PCSX2:
a Desktop:i5-2500(3.3Ghz~3.48Ghz),8GBram,HD5750,MSI-H67,Win7(ULT/x64),Win's Exper. Index-->CPU:7.5,GPU:7.3
a Laptop:i7-720QM(1.6Ghz~2.11Ghz),4GBram,HD5650,Win7(Pro/x64)
a Netbook:N2600(1.6Ghz/4),1GBram,Win7/STR
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