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Old 28th July 2005, 10:38 AM
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BIOS and vid card firmware updating

So dell has releases an updated bios for my machine (latitude D610) which includes videocard updates.

is there anything i should be carefull of while upbrading, or is it all fairly transparent to the os?

(im on fc4)
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Old 28th July 2005, 01:31 PM
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It depends on the method of updating. If it requires a Windows utility then for obvious reasons you can't. The boot disk method should be okay. I updated my BIOS with FC3 using a boot disk.
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Old 28th July 2005, 07:15 PM
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yeah, i dual boot, so im finw with the acctual install part. i went ahead and did the upgrade and it all seems to be working fine so far
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