How to update BIOS on a system that only use Linux as OS.

Asking this because some clowns at Acer decided that they will only provide BIOS updates through Windows Update.

Edit: I’m not talking about installing the BIOS file. They don’t even provide BIOS file in the first place.

  • gpstarmanOP
    2·
    5 months ago

    they don’t seem to be of much help.

    Classic corporate tech forum behaviour.

    If you can get your hands on the Windows Update, you can probably extract the BIOS

    How?

    I can’t find the exact model on their website, it seems like Acer produced this device as a low-cost deal specifically for the Indian market and decided to just… not support it?.

    Which is very dumb.

    update .exe

    What .exe are talking about exactly? Is there some exe inside windows iso?

    And idk what clevo is. Maybe a mass manufacturer of low quality computers (from my low effort search)

      • gpstarmanOP
        21·
        5 months ago

        Most BIOS updates come with a firmware file and a .exe to flash it

        Sadly in my case, iy doesn’t.

        how do you know they exist?

        Sorry, I wrongly remembered. It’s my other laptop which has a new bios update.

        • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          Most BIOS updates come with a firmware file and a .exe to flash it

          Sadly in my case, iy doesn’t.

          I think they’re saying the Windows update file will contain the firmware binary.

          You can find Windows update files here: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Acer

          But you’ll probably have to check each update and see if the “Supported Hardware IDs” match some sort of UUID in dmidecode. I’m not sure if those are supposed to match though.

          Then there are some generic firmware update tools for Linux that might work, or might brick your laptop.