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Honest question: Does Windows ever roll out BIOS updates? I assumed not, but maybe I've just been away from it for too long.
by CoastalCoder 3y ago
Honest question: Does Windows ever roll out BIOS updates?
I assumed not, but maybe I've just been away from it for too long.
- Ryccardo 3y agoYes - well, EFI updates (you get, non-sarcastically, to guess at the reason for this design choice, but as a matter of fact it only supports the "EFI capsule" system popularized by AMI's Aptio and Insyde's H2O) Anyway, if you're running Win8+ in EFI mode you'll see "Firmware" in Device Manager, which just like any other "device" in the list can have its "driver" upgraded, this unsurprisingly being a special case of driver: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/bringup/windows-uefi-firmware-update-platform https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/b... And yes, if you know how commercial PC firmwares are made [cooperation between CPU/chipset maker and firmware corporation, who then sells the semi-finished product to the motherboard manufacturer - most famously "To be filled by O.E.M." :P ], some times it goes wrong, namely when two different designs get the same ID like the generic default: https://web.archive.org/web/20170101104905/http://www.minixforum.com/threads/neo-z64w-doesnt-start-anymore-after-windows-10-update-help.14122/page-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20170101104905/http://www.minixf... (scroll down to post 10)