Is there a good reason to update your BIOS? Does it happen automatically?
zakabog
These days it’s fine, my motherboard has dual BIOS, I don’t think BIOS updates have been that scary for well over a decade.
abuMercedes
Life is not fun without the suspense
Jumper775-2
The best time to update my bios is when it needs updating. I don’t care about that zombie apocolypse or the incoming tsunami, expo might finally be stable.
DarthSubSlaveGTI
And now i’m in grub, debugging shit
Nice-Ferret-3067
Ya’ll never had anxiety around 24+ hour long 3d prints, haha. Most BIOS have secondary partitions as a backup and BIOS recovery methods, right?
Only machine I took out due to a BIOS update was a brand new Thinkpad that died within 5 minutes brand new out of the box as Lenovo thinks it’s a good idea to include BIOS updates in their standard updates in Vantage.
pooamalgam
I have a Jackery battery bank for power outages that comes in really handy for updating BIOS’ on my various machines. Worry free these days.
David0ne86
Meh, bios updates nowadays are a fucking breeze. You were sweating bullets 20 years ago tho.
mektor
There’s some areas where it always looks like that outside.
I wouldn’t be worried. Every computer I have has it’s own UPS. And both rigs I’ve built update their bios from a flash drive and a button on the motherboard without needing a CPU or the board booted up in order to flash it.
hovsep56
i’m just too scared to update my bios and too lazy to use a usb and go through all that procces.
No_Butterscotch_3933
kinda makes sense that someone stuck at home whose already done their gaming for the day thinks “i wonder if theres any softwlware updates needed somewhere”
I’m going to update my bios this week in hopes of fixing some issues. Honestly I’m quite nervous doing so.
guywithagun2
Naa, some of us live in South Africa
Megalopath
This post brought to you by the UPS gang! 😀
Jwn5k
UPS gang rise up
The_Pacific_gamer
I think you meant Texas, not Washington state.
Capital-Kick-2887
What’s the actual reason to not update the BIOS while it’s raining?
How would a UPS protect you from rain? Assuming your house isn’t leaking.
starshin3r
So literally every single day in UK?
Dreadknott45
This is going to probably sound dumb but is there a down side to not updating bios? I didn’t know it was a thing until this sub and haven’t done it ever.
stevezilla33
BIOS updates come with some risk but its not some ultra scary thing that needs to be avoided. BIOS updates include software updates your computer may actually need and/or benefit greatly from. If you bought when a platform was brand new and haven’t updated any BIOS on your mobo since release, you likely have optimizations and stability improvement you could be taking advantage of.
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Don’t be scared, just be careful.
Noctum-Aeternus
This is why you use a battery backup. My back up can run for almost an hour idling at my desktop. 200 dollar 850W Sine Wave Backup for the monitor and PC. Bought it when I built my current rig. When you’re spending 2k+ on a PC, I don’t get why you wouldn’t spend the extra money to protect it. It’s cheaper than replacing bricked/surge damaged hardware.
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I have a UPS, so it’s fine.
Is there a good reason to update your BIOS? Does it happen automatically?
These days it’s fine, my motherboard has dual BIOS, I don’t think BIOS updates have been that scary for well over a decade.
Life is not fun without the suspense
The best time to update my bios is when it needs updating. I don’t care about that zombie apocolypse or the incoming tsunami, expo might finally be stable.
And now i’m in grub, debugging shit
Ya’ll never had anxiety around 24+ hour long 3d prints, haha. Most BIOS have secondary partitions as a backup and BIOS recovery methods, right?
Only machine I took out due to a BIOS update was a brand new Thinkpad that died within 5 minutes brand new out of the box as Lenovo thinks it’s a good idea to include BIOS updates in their standard updates in Vantage.
I have a Jackery battery bank for power outages that comes in really handy for updating BIOS’ on my various machines. Worry free these days.
Meh, bios updates nowadays are a fucking breeze. You were sweating bullets 20 years ago tho.
There’s some areas where it always looks like that outside.
I wouldn’t be worried. Every computer I have has it’s own UPS. And both rigs I’ve built update their bios from a flash drive and a button on the motherboard without needing a CPU or the board booted up in order to flash it.
i’m just too scared to update my bios and too lazy to use a usb and go through all that procces.
kinda makes sense that someone stuck at home whose already done their gaming for the day thinks “i wonder if theres any softwlware updates needed somewhere”
The Backup UPS be like :
https://preview.redd.it/ssgm786fp9tc1.png?width=2564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdbae7d61547651661d5122d07dba9f4c5e56b7a
I’m going to update my bios this week in hopes of fixing some issues. Honestly I’m quite nervous doing so.
Naa, some of us live in South Africa
This post brought to you by the UPS gang! 😀
UPS gang rise up
I think you meant Texas, not Washington state.
What’s the actual reason to not update the BIOS while it’s raining?
How would a UPS protect you from rain? Assuming your house isn’t leaking.
So literally every single day in UK?
This is going to probably sound dumb but is there a down side to not updating bios? I didn’t know it was a thing until this sub and haven’t done it ever.
BIOS updates come with some risk but its not some ultra scary thing that needs to be avoided. BIOS updates include software updates your computer may actually need and/or benefit greatly from. If you bought when a platform was brand new and haven’t updated any BIOS on your mobo since release, you likely have optimizations and stability improvement you could be taking advantage of.
​
Don’t be scared, just be careful.
This is why you use a battery backup. My back up can run for almost an hour idling at my desktop. 200 dollar 850W Sine Wave Backup for the monitor and PC. Bought it when I built my current rig. When you’re spending 2k+ on a PC, I don’t get why you wouldn’t spend the extra money to protect it. It’s cheaper than replacing bricked/surge damaged hardware.
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