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Interesting! Thanks for the pointer on that. This is a work-issued computer, so I'm not sure I officially even have BIOS/boot access on it, however the Dell Upd
by mikepurvis 5y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the pointer on that. This is a work-issued computer, so I'm not sure I officially even have BIOS/boot access on it, however the Dell Update utility is telling me that I have a 1.21 BIOS update waiting in the wings, so perhaps I'll install that and see what happens. It would be hard to picture it getting any worse, though I suppose the people updating to 1.3 thought that too.
- exikyut 5y agoHuh. Before updating... I was under the impression 1.3.0 was The Update Of Doom, not prior versions. Your BIOS might still have the S3 option available, and furthermore, based on the anecdata I found about downgrade being blocked starting at 1.4.0, you might be able to go to even lower BIOS versions too if you need to. Even if the option does not appear to be available, it might be an interesting idea to ask around wherever this is being discussed, before updating, in case there's any interesting insight to be had there. In any case I'd definitely have a thorough look around the current BIOS version first. If onsite IT has their heads screwed on correctly :) it shouldn't be too difficult to demonstrate the benefits of a) checking the BIOS (if you don't have read-only access) and b) enabling the option if it's available (if you don't have read-write access).