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[CLOSED] BIOS Upgrade

ThatDude90

Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:28:35 am

Is there a way to upgrade your BIOS on Zorin?

I have an old Toshiba that I revived and have Zorin Lite on it.

Is a dual boot to Windows the easiest way to go?

Aravisian

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:00:39 am

ThatDude90 wrote:Is there a way to upgrade your BIOS on Zorin?

I have an old Toshiba that I revived and have Zorin Lite on it.

Is a dual boot to Windows the easiest way to go?

It is one way to go. But you can update your BIOS for your machine using a Flash Drive USB with the BIOS rec. on it.
Create the BIOS rec. on a Windows computer.
Which Toshiba machine are you running?

ThatDude90

Tue Feb 18, 2020 2:04:41 pm

Aravisian wrote:It is one way to go. But you can update your BIOS for your machine using a Flash Drive USB with the BIOS rec. on it.
Create the BIOS rec. on a Windows computer.
Which Toshiba machine are you running?


Satellite L655-S5096

Aravisian

Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:18:50 pm

https://support.dynabook.com/support/mo ... 36&osId=29
Package: sk2cv270.exe

ThatDude90

Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:23:10 pm

Aravisian wrote:https://support.dynabook.com/support/modelHome?freeText=2761036&osId=29
Package: sk2cv270.exe


So would I flash that exactly like how one would install Linux from a USB boot?

Aravisian

Tue Feb 18, 2020 11:36:55 pm

ThatDude90 wrote:
Aravisian wrote:https://support.dynabook.com/support/modelHome?freeText=2761036&osId=29
Package: sk2cv270.exe


So would I flash that exactly like how one would install Linux from a USB boot?

More or less, yes. You would need to create a bootable medium, first.

Please Note The Warning At the Top and note about Microcode
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fl ... from_Linux

https://askubuntu.com/questions/46886/h ... ash-a-bios

ThatDude90

Thu Feb 20, 2020 4:36:12 am

Aravisian wrote:More or less, yes. You would need to create a bootable medium, first.

Please Note The Warning At the Top and note about Microcode
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fl ... from_Linux

https://askubuntu.com/questions/46886/h ... ash-a-bios


I'll give that a try next time. Ended up installing Windows 10 and updating the BIOS that way. The flash method sounds a less tedious. Thanks for the help!