Question I walked in to find my gf with my laptop performing a BIOS update ?

[Dog-Target-Appears]

As the title says, I walked into the room to find my gf with my laptop (Win11) in the middle of a BIOS update. She claims it did it itself, but there's no recent Windows update in the history. I've performed a Malwarebytes scan and a Windows offline scan, but nothing shows up in the Windows scan history nor the Malwarebytes results.
What should I do?

 

[SkyNetRising]

What should I do?

What's the problem?
Did BIOS update fail?

There could be some laptop manufacturer specific software, that does BIOS updates automatically.
Windows normally doesn't do that.

 

[Cilantro7536]

What brand of laptop do you have?

My Dell computer does have an update utility that will prompt me to run updates every once in a while, and BIOS update is included with it, although I have to explicitly allow it to install the updates.

I would at least check with your manufacturer's website to see if there has been an update recently. Check if the Bios' versions match. If the info don't match, and I am suspicious of my GF (and her technical abilities), I'd think about reinstalling the BIOS.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

She claims it did it itself, but there's no recent Windows update in the history.

I'm pretty sure BIOS updates wouldn't be shown in Windows Update History anyway.

 

[Secret-Squirrel]

......................... but there's no recent Windows update in the history.

Did you check under "Driver Updates" because that's where they're normally shown. BIOS updates will have a label of "Firmware" in the list.

Lots of computers nowadays from big-name brands have their BIOS updates installed automatically via Windows Update so your girlfriend may be telling the truth.

 

[faalin]

I just ran windows updates on a dell laptop yesterday at work and it did a BIOS update as part of the windows updates.

 

[Gururu]

Once you go BIOS you dont go back I guess.

 

[Ralston18]

Look in Relibility History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may have captured some error code, warning, or even an informational event just before or at the time of the update.

 

[rgd1101]

what the laptop? some hp and dell might update

 

[kerberos_20]

I'm pretty sure BIOS updates wouldn't be shown in Windows Update History anyway.

it somehow is visible, but under drivers - system firmware

win update provides it as a driver update, that should still be visible in win update history, if not then atleast in event viewer it should be visible