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Do I need to install BIOS updates?
Nightslyr
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Dell recommends installing BIOS updates whenever they release them. That said, the last time I updated my laptop's BIOS, it was a dual boot Windows 7/Linux Mint machine. The BIOS update messed something up with my boot sector, to the point where GRUB didn't work and I had to do a fresh format/reinstall of Windows. My laptop is currently pure Windows 7.
So, the reason why I'm asking is that I'm tempted to turn my laptop into a dual boot Windows/linux machine again so I can do all of my web development on one machine. I don't have linux installed anywhere at the moment, and it's pretty ghetto doing PHP work by uploading files to a shared host for testing. I'm just afraid that another BIOS update will force me to rebuild my laptop again.
Thoughts?
So, the reason why I'm asking is that I'm tempted to turn my laptop into a dual boot Windows/linux machine again so I can do all of my web development on one machine. I don't have linux installed anywhere at the moment, and it's pretty ghetto doing PHP work by uploading files to a shared host for testing. I'm just afraid that another BIOS update will force me to rebuild my laptop again.
Thoughts?
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