Comment 101 for bug 1878279

The first problem is that a BIOS-Update is only delivered as an EXE-file
for Windows 10.

Does this work with WINE?

Am 19.02.21 um 12:05 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> I've been debugging a similar issue together with a Fedora user:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871793
> (note this bug is set to private atm, so you can likely not view this, I've asked the reporter if it is ok to open it up)
>
> I see some comments here about things no longer working after a BIOS
> upgrade, here is what I wrote about this in the Fedora bug:
>
> "Sometimes BIOS upgrades don't clear the BIOS settings even though they
> should, causing the new BIOS to interpret the binary settings blob from
> the old BIOS in the wrong way. This may also cause hidden settings to be
> wrong.
>
> Have you tried loading the BIOS default or optimal settings?"
>
> And it turns out that on the reporters "Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14IIL05" the
> fix for this issue is the combination of:
>
> 1. Install the latest BIOS
> 2. Enter setup, load default or optimal settings.
> 3. Save settings, reboot
>
> Please give this a try and if this works, please let us know that this
> helped.
>
> If you are adding a comment about this helping or not, it would also be
> useful to know:
>
> 1. If you tried "pci=nocrs" with older BIOS versions and if that helped with the older BIOS
> 2. If you are still using "pci=nocrs" with the newer BIOS
> 3. If you are still using "pci=nocrs" with the newer BIOS, please try removing "pci=nocrs" from the kernel commandline, do things still work?
>
> Note for the Fedora reporter things worked with:
>
> 1. The old BIOS + "pci=nocrs"
> 2. The new BIOS + default-settings-load without needing "pci=nocrs"
>
>
> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1871793
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871793
>