[geeks] recover from HP Pavilion failed BIOS update

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Nate wrote:

> One thing I can say about Intel is they successfully worked around this
> by providing some sort of temporary storage space for the new BIOS data
> to be stored so that the Windows flash software simply preloads the new
> BIOS to that area, reboots the computer, and then the BIOS updates
> itself pre-boot in a very reliable way.

Dell have used a similar mechanism for years, and I always appreciated it.

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