News These Dell BIOS Ups Are Wrecking Alienware, Inspiron PCs

[Admin]

Some new Dell BIOS ups are causing panic for Inspiron, Latitude and Aurora PC users.

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[husker]

You had me at "Dell... Wrecking Alianware..."

 

[thepersonwithaface45]

Man, paying a premium for a brand aesthetic only to have their updates brick ya. That's messed up.

 

[punkncat]

I have an Inspiron that the Support Assistant is installed on. It went through it's scan and popped up having to update the BIOS. I am letting it do it's thing and starts acting crazy right about the time I am scrolling on the desktop and saw this story posted. OooooO
Thankfully, it turned out to be ok.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Make sure to disable "UEFI Firmware Capsule Updates" in the BIOS settings or Windows 10 will download and install BIOS updates via WU.

 

[jelyon]

This issue has been going on for longer than the last half of this year. Dell did the same thing at the end of last year/beginning of this year to the Dell G5S laptops with AMD processors.

Basically a person always has to be very careful with Dell bios because the "upgrades" they are supposed to do have a high chance of coming with some really unhelpful downgrades.

 

[Exploding PSU]

I never knew laptops could have their BIOS updated. Maybe the tech I have are just too old. I have a Skylake-era Lenovo as my daily driver, and not once I've ever touched its BIOS (let alone updating it). I thought if it's not broken, don't fix it?