Flashing bios with harddrive encryption

hi,

i have no idea how your OS and/or all the installed software will react to a new bios. Backup and Testing are the keywords here...

I never update a well-functioning bios without good reason. No problems, no new bios.

Did you know your warranty probably expires after the bios flash ? Or what if somehow the bios gets corrupted as a result - usually that will create a problem for you.

About your other question : yes - you could flash from within windows. It saves the bios data to a safe place in memory that will survive a reboot afaik and only starts updating after the reboot to dos.

As an alternative you could create a bootable usb stick with the bios update on it. A bootable cd will also do the trick. Altough i have not seen any problems with flashing from windows the dos method still is my preferred way to update a bios.

I have only once seen problems between a bios and the OS that were reproducable the result of an updated bios and that was solved by flashing the original bios back.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I don't think that I'm going to loose warranty due bios update since I'm suffering problems with the product and manufacturer is correcting faults in the form of new bios. (living in Europe, don't know is there big differences in the terms of quarantee in different continents/countries :-?)  My problems are related to standby/resume, wlan and video. Seems that newer bioses are correcting more or less my problems.

right... i guess pointsec is placed in the mbr to be able to do that.

The mbr is located on the harddisk and should not be affected by a bios update.

I would guess you won't get into problems flashing the bios.