Firmware

I was gifted a large lot of Intel 3500 480 gb SSD's and they all worked fine descent health no bad sector no error's except for one that had one bad sector. I used Disk genius to scan surface and it memorised where the bad sector is, I went Repair... and it did no more bad sector... disk works...

Hi everyone, I’m working on a Dell G15 5515 (Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3050 Ti) and recently installed a compatible 4-zone RGB keyboard and controller (for Dell G15 5510/5511/5515 models). While the keyboard functions for typing, the RGB lighting is not detected by Alienware Command Center (AWCC)...

Hello, I suppose this belongs to the motherboard part of the forum. a few months ago I had issues with my Ideapad 3 wherein the plastic on the upper right side got very loose despite the screw still being in there, which led to the other side getting loose as well, which led to the charging...

Hello everyone I have very strange situation I want to update my Nikon 5200 firmware To do so I need to take out the sd card and put the firmware using my laptop The problem is that my laptop won't show the sd card in my computer it will make the sound etc Found that the card is formatted in...

I have a Genexis Titanium T21 Pro router and it's locked by the ISP so I want to change it's firmware i am unable to find it's firmware on it's website, all over the internet, openwrt & DDWRT. So Can anyone help me change its firmware?

I bought a mid-range motherboard that came out the factory 2 months ago. I will use it for a future PC build I'm planning, but I'm not actively working on it. The question is: If I leave the motherboard for about 12 months without power (it won't be unpacked and connected to a power supply for...

I bought a T480s laptop about 3 weeks ago. Everything was working fine when I got it. First thing I did was try and update thunderbolt firmware on Windows. The port was appearing on Device Manager after downloading the thunderbolt controller software, but nothing showed up on the controller...

Hello everyone. I have a DrayTek Vigor 2760n router. I wanted to update it's firmware and when I looked at the official website, I saw that I can update from 3.8.9.4_STD to 3.8.9.6_BT. After the update, the device stays in TFTP mode and does not turn on. So I switched to 3.8.9.4_BT using TFTP...

Hello! I own a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (rev. 1.0) motherboard. The BIOS version that I am on is: F11. Gigabyte released version F12 recently. Question: Did anyone updated this motherboard model to the F12 version? Is it OK?

So my Quadro m2000 works with legacy bios but not with UEFI even though the firmware supports it i can boot into windowd using the igpu in uefi and the card shows up normally but i can't change to display on it i did the firmware update for DP this problem is driving me insane

Well, hi! I want to update the firmware on my Kingston NVMe SSD but the Kingston SSD Manager (the only way to update) doesn't see any drives. BIOS is OK, Windows is OK, speeds and etc OK. Just the manager doesn't see it ? It gives me some errors that you can see on the images below, so if you...

Hi, everyone! A novice as far as computer architecture and systems are concerned, I was thinking of firmware, about which I have the following questions: Kindly asking fellow forum-dwellers for insight into the above, Thank you

I've been meaning to buy a used Thinkpad T480/T480s for a while because of its build quality, user serviceability, ubiquity, price, keyboard, and etc., but I've kept hesitating due to one issue: Its thunderbolt/USB-C firmware. From my understanding of it, apparently there's a bug in the...

What causes this and how do i fix it ? screen grab I'm running latest XanMod on my Pop_OS 22.04lts with a 6700 XT GPU and i see this everytime I update the XanMod ?

So a while ago I installed a firmware update, possibly involving the BIOS on my AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, and once it was complete I encountered extreme graphical bugs. Talked to a close IT professional and he said it was definitely the GPU, but could not tell if it was something wrong with the...

Hello all, I have problems with my XMG laptop's mainboard from 'Schenker technologies': Board Information Manufacturer: NB02 Product Name: GMxNGxx Version: Standard Serial Number: Standard Asset Tag: Standard I accidentally flashed the wrong EC firmware. I was lucky, apparently there are only...

Greetings, I just got this air of thought about what happens to the old BIOS version of a motherboard, does it get sandwiched? Like does the new version of a BIOS lays itself on top of the old one? Or does the old BIOS version and everything about it gets deleted and gets completely replaced...

Hello everyone, I've bought this card second hand and noticed some artifacts and glitching with it. I tried flashing the card with this particular BIOS, but I noticed that it was already flashed with that one. Could anyone provide a stock BIOS dump of the ASRock Radeon RX 6600 XT Challenger D...

Hi... my first question on this forum (I have also asked this question on Reddit here and will link to here from there too) (I'd also acknowledge and reference related recent threads Crucial MX500 500GB sata ssd Remaining Life decreasing fast despite few bytes being written and Any Crucial...

So, I know the UEFI is responsible for POSTing then loading the machine's OS... But then, what loads the UEFI itself up in the first place? Does it have its own tiny special boot loader?

This is only my 3rd build and I’m not the best with navigating windows or software to begin with. Anyway, I built a new pc and only transferred my gpu and m.2 ssds over and didn’t wipe anything on the storage I just dropped it in and it booted up and the games ran fine for a bit probably 20...

BIOS won't POST at all. Specs: Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master rev1.1 mobo Threadripper 3970X 32 core Corsair 64GB 2x32 2x SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB, M.2 NVMe Issue: I normally don't power down my machine, I just suspend to RAM. But over this weekend I had powered down. And yesterday morning...

I've struggled with this problem before even took it to nvdia got alot of support members involved they concluded that the reason dsr and subsequently dldsr do not function properly is due to the firmware of my monitor I have an asus vg34v 3440x1440 21:9 165hz monitor the problem is that the dsr...

Dear all I have turned off Network adapters in Device Manager The laptop is not connected to a network 1. Can a laptop manufacturer install hardware, software or firmware, that could connect to the wifi, cellular without showing that the laptop has internet? And then use this “hidden”...

Hello everyone I have bought several brand new in-package Kingston USB drives I have turned off Network adapters in Device Manager The computer is not connected to a network 1. Has there been any instances, stories etc., where a Kingston USB drive turned on /activated and used the network...

Yesterday I updated my Redragon K550 driver as I had a version from a year ago, but when I opened the program, It started updating the keyboard's firmware, now the <, {, the right shift and the + key from the numpad don't work; I think the new firmware mess it up, does anyone know of any...

I've currently got the Crosshair VI HERO mobo running bios 1501 with a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32GB Ram and a GTX 1080. I'm upgrading my cpu to a Ryzen 7 3800 for compatibility with Windows 11 and a few other benefits but that means that i need to update the BIOS on my mobo. I first tried using the AI...

To anyone that can help me, Here's the situation, I have a Tenda AC1200 a11 router that I tried to update the firmware of. I accidentally clicked a blank space on the web ui while it was updating at 70% which made the progress bar disappear. It then cut off my connection with the router shortly...

I have Asus X-570 E-Gaming. The mobo was showing green Q-LED today, I came to know it's because of failed boot. So, I'm updating the BIOS(firmware or host boot software). The size of the flash file is 32 MiB and the flash drive used is 2.0 one. It's been 30 min now and the green LED(which...

Microsoft bricked my EK QuantumX Delta Tec when I updated the firmware of my Xbox one controller How, well the Xbox Accessory program decided my EK QuantumX Delta Tec was a 2nd Xbox One Controller and flashed Xbox Controller firmware onto it. I need help getting in touch with EK so I can get a...

So my system was running fine for a year+ , but my ADATA Spectrix S40G always had performance issues if any lighting software was controlling it. They made a new firmware that corrected it, I updated it today. When the system restarted, it went to BIOS because no bootable device were found...

Hello. I just bought a used HP Z640, and was in the initial stages of setting the device up at my home. I started by clearing the CMOS, and reverting any changes by the previous owner of the device in the firmware so I could set things up how I wanted them. I noticed that legacy support was...

I have this infrared touchscreen overlay: https://cjtouch.en.made-in-china.com/product/iSzxwQrTuJtq/China-Interface-IR-Infrared-Touch-Screen-22-Touch-Screen-Overlay.html I bought it a few years ago when I still used Windows 7. That OS has a bug where you can't disable a single click delay for...

Hello! Windows 11 requires secure boot and TPM 2.0 being enabled. Generally, before updating the BIOS, I load the default settings of the motherboard. Question: What happens if I update the BIOS while the secure boot and TPM 2.0 are enabled? Will that lead to errors?

I have an Inno3D GTX 660 which came with default vBIOS (80.06.10.00.2C) but the fans only maxed out at 74%, So I tried flashing the vBIOS (80.06.10.00.3F) which would let me use fan maxed out at 95%. It flashed successfully but as soon as I restarted the PC, I got a error at the GPU screen...

Hello, I am using the EVGA GTX 750 ti (EVGA094 REV 2.0) card. This card has no power supply plug and was working fine so far. I've tried to get rid of the fan noise (known problem) by installing some other firmware. By accident I have installed one for some board that requires the additional 6...

I have been using a old model of tp-link router over some years and now i want to upgrade to a latest one but here the problem occurs. I can't find the release date of any tp-link router by googling or even from the tp-link website. So, Because of not knowing the release date, I can't...

Hey folks, Hoping someone here can point me in the right direction here. Issue: When I sleep or hibernate on my PC it will reboot after a while (can take 6-12 hours to happen) Solutions tried: Went to Device Manager > System Devices > Intel(R) Management Engine Interface #1 > Power...

I don't know why can't update MS-17G1 SBIOS Ver. 111 it come from with windows 10 other update and fail attempt many times restart computer. anybody can help me? View: https://imgur.com/a/yZ7QVOK Product name: WS7S 9TK BIOS version: E17G1IWS.10D BIOS Release Date: 2019/05/16

Hi , I have an 860 evo 1 tb . Fresh os installed November 2020 and no issues . I installed Samsung magician and informs me about the new firmware . Do i need to update if i do not have issues ?(read 561 mb/s , write 531mb/s) Also i have 699gb free do i need to enable the over provisioning ? Thanks .