It is the process of writing (burning) a firmware (aka image) to a reprogrammable chip such as an EEPROM.
Questions tagged [flashing]
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What is "flashing the BIOS"?
What does "Flashing the BIOS" mean? Are there benefits to flashing it? Is it safe? Should it be done inside or outside of an OS, for example my current Windows 7 installation?
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Is it possible to update BIOS to UEFI?
I just ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant on an older machine (just for fun) and was informed that due to lack of UEFI firmware, Secure Boot would not be supported.
Is it possible for motherboard manufacturers, if they so choose (obviously they…
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How can I re-program/flash a backup of the bios?
I have some computers that have a particular bios setting that keeps everything running smoothly. The setting is not the default setting for the motherboard. So, when the CMOS battery dies, the setting is erased and causes the user problems. How…
user285705
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Software flashes just a split second in taskbar. How to find out what software it is?
I've started to notice a strange program that just flashes about every minute in my taskbar. I've uninstalled any strange software trough Windows Add or Remove Programs. It's quite annoying.
And my question is if it's there a software that can log…
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Getting Rufus to output to a disk image file
Basically, I require different Live USBs for different needs. I have a single USB drive & when I need to switch to another distro/OS, I simply flash this USB drive with the right boot attributes, using Rufus.
I thought that since I keep on setting…
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ASUS RT-AC66R hard reset
Have an ASUS RT-AC66R - we had set it up for our church and was working flawlessly. I was approached last sunday to say it was not connecting (2014-01-19). We had set it with the 2.5 and 5 Ghz connections and was fine. We tried to reset it there…
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How one can detect if a Graphic Card's BIOS was flashed before?
I'm planning to buy a used Graphic card and I want to know whether the person using it had flashed the BIOS before, put a custom one and now that selling it just replaced the default BIOS again or not.
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How to update BIOS on Acer SF314-42 without Windows installed?
The official website has a new version of BIOS for my laptop. The download from the website is a zip archive, which contains an executable and a README.txt, which instructs to click the executable under Windows. I am running Debian "buster".…
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How to disable or remove Intel SMM?
I have successfully removed Intel ME from the firmware by reflashing the BIOS using corna's tool:
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
However I am still concerned about SMM. Intel ME and AMT vulnerabilities are horrible and classified as ring -3,…
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Device /dev/spidev* not found
I have a Banana Pi M1 and wanted to flash libreboot on a ThinkPad T400. I followed Raspberry Pi (ThinkPad X200), as RPi's GPIO pins are almost the same as BPi's and T400's chip is the same as X200. The only problem is that when it comes to flash the…
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Install H87M-PRO BIOS on M51AC (different model names, same motherboard)
I currently own an Asus M51AC-FR034S that has an Asus M51AC motherboard.
When I updated the BIOS some time ago I noticed that the BIOS file name was
H87M-PRO-ASUS-M51AC-1002.CAP
Whereas H87M-PRO's one was
H87M-PRO-ASUS-2102.CAP
After some search,…
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Laptop screen flashing white
I bought my little sister an Asus x551 laptop from microcenter. It was not even a week old when she called me about a problem it was having. The screen was flashing white occasionally. Since I live 100 miles away, I connected to her computer with…
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what does it mean to hard-brick a device?
I read people complaining that certain EFI-enabled Samsung laptops can be accidentally 'bricked' when trying to install an OS or when using certain programs in them, which doesn't happen with BIOS mode. The way I read it, it seems software can cause…
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Third party firmware for WPN824?
My router recently developed some sort of DHCP malfunction so I decided to flash the firmware. And being the geek that I am I figured, while I'm flashing it, why not upgrade it? However, finding a legitimate third party firmware seems to be more…
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Update AMI American Megatrends BIOS via EFI/UEFI firmware shell
I have found an used gigabyte brixx nuc style pc and wanted to try to update it's bios for testing, because some other versions has been released. The device hasn't a direct flash utility inside so I have to resort to an external tool.
On the…
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