Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now?

Re:Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now? by Shared404 on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:53PM (#35292970)

If it's running Windows then sometimes BIOS updates can be delivered through Windows update.

Yes it's just as bad an idea as it seems.

Source: Dealt with it occasionally at a computer repair shop I worked at.

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Re:Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now? by taubek on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:04PM (#35293153)

This is such a bad idea. For large systems/companies there are management platforms.

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Re:Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now? by dogma1138 on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:43PM (#35294423)

Large companies manage windows update.

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Re:Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now? by buescher on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:02PM (#35293112)

I am pretty sure I have seen it on Ubuntu also.

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Re:Dell is reflashing the bios automatically on reboot now? by Shared404 on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:07PM (#35293190)

I've not seen it yet on Ubuntu, at least not through the default update path - occasionally I'll see a pop up for "firmware update available" though.

Windows will automatically deploy the BIOS update along with any other automatically deployed updates.

That being said, I rarely use vanilla Ubuntu and rarely use Dell, so maybe I've just not seen it and it does happen.

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