I looked at the Dell Precision T4300 downloads and noticed the two BIOS updates, A11 and A14.

I've done those a few times on smartphones. In the decade since then, I have not had a problem, and many computers these days have a 'recovery mode' built into their BIOS so if a flash does go wrong, you can still do a recovery. This was around the time Microsoft Windows Vista was coming out, and I was upgrading a laptop whose BIOS manufacturer specifically said the update was needed for Vista compatibility. I can only think of one instance in which a laptop was 'bricked' and couldn't be recovered. Some, though, never had any BIOS updates made available, while others might have had ten or more. A few hundred machines (maybe over 1000 now) ranging from palmtop PCs to servers, each probably done 3-4× over the life of the machine. I update the BIOS (or now UEFI) firmware on all my computers as soon as I'm aware that new firmware is available. Thanks, Clutter Edited Februby Cluttermagnet So what do you guys think? Should I leave well enough alone, or goĪhead and update? Meanwhile, I will continue to read up on what,Įxactly, the various BIOS revisions actually did- but I have seen someĬomments on this in the past and have already formed some I would be seeking just a little coaching to get through the first Or flash drive, that would boot (I guess) into a DOS-like environmentĪnd run the. I'd simply have to learn how to make an install medium, CD I'm runningįrom off line UPS power, so potential power drops would not be an If I were to update my BIOS on the new box, this would be the first I think some of the BIOS updates allowed for more and more I think most of the BIOS revisions addressed changes in WIndows, Want to bother to update it? Looks like A11 and A14 are currently the Unit seems so far to be fully up to the easy job it has here, do I really The other twoīoxes have A07 and A11 BIOS versions.

That's around the time these first came out, I think. Has a rather old BIOS, version A02, which dates to December '07. I'm writing to ask for opinions on the BIOS issue. This is a great price point on the desktop continuum. So for around 65 dollars, I get a real nice piece of 2007 tech. The box came with enough RAM that IĬan just leave it be- 4G of ECC PC2-6400E/800MHz. Ditto for the bigĪluminum extrusion heatsink- replaced it with a nice copper heat pipeĬooler for another 10 dollars. It came with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU at 2.33GHz which I immediately They're easy to work on, fast, and quiet. I already have two others and I like them a lot.

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