Back in the old days there was no rollback option either. Kids have it too easy now.
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Way back in the day, there was no firmware update.
Back in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.
Ahh, those were the days. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.
Yeah I was gonna say that, It's not from my time but it's from my time enough that I still studied them in school
If it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don't suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.
I mean, there is still no rollback if you don't spend a lot of extra bucks for that feature
Adrenaline? PTSD from when I didn't have a second device to have a plan B.
That's when I grab my 2009 laptop from my basement.
A few years ago I purchased an NVMe SSD, and an adapter, without thinking much of it. I try to use it, only to find out it isn't recognized. My motherboard didn't support it. I had to manually download files for it and patch in support to the motherbord's firmware. You haven't lived until you do this.
V8.40 => V8.40 🤔
Flashing the same version of the BIOS just to feel something, anything.
Mechanical CPU doing 862 RPM.
Now you can just buy a CH341 dongle and clip it onto the BIOS flash chip if you need to unbrick the motherboard. It's easy as long as the motherboard uses an SOIC or DIP flash chip.
Yes, but first often you'll need to dump the flash ROM, since some BIOS requires signing (at least on some OEM boards and laptops).
Nothing brought me closer to god then getting into tech. Praise be to omnimessah.
01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01101000 00101110
*omnissiah
So it is. Been spelling it wrong in text for ages. I need to stick to binary.
Palms are sweaty
ROM Spaghetti
Commit on my server already
At work, I bricked MB once because BIOS update failed AND rollback feature didn't work. 🤷🏻♀
Batteries are good
I updated my BIOS yesterday. Is my phone listening to me?
So weak, libreboot or gtfo
Or GNU Boot? 👀