Lenovo Ideacentre - how to start on power application?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:44:28 +0100, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 at 18:03, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a Lenovo Ideacentre 307ADA05 also named as Lenovo 90MV on its serial
>> number label.
>
>Just for what it's worth, the firmware was updated this March.
>
>https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/desktops-and-all-in-ones/3-series/ideacentre-3-07ada05/downloads/driver-list/component?name=BIOS%2FUEFI&id=5AC6A815-321D-440E-8833-B07A93E0428C

Thanks,
it seems like it is only available as a Windows-10 download (they call it
Operating System Version)....
It is ages since I even started the PC into Windows so I do not remember the
login anymore, hopefully I can guess it...

Can the f/w itself not retrieve the update and install it, like what my ASUS
routers do?

Otherwise what would be the procedure to use?

Can I download the f/w file on my own laptop and then put it onto an USB thumb
drive which I plug into the Lenovo PC before or after a restart into the grub
menu.

Or would I hit F10 repeatedly during start to stop it from even coming to Grub?

Once in BIOS can I direct it to use the file on USB for the update?


>> Is there some setting that can be made on this machine that tells it to start if
>> power has been cycled? I.e. when power unexpectedly disappears and then returns
>> again it should start up normally.
>
>Usually it is in the BIOS/UEFI somewhere. Contrary to other comments,
>I've seen this in lots of machines including consumer-level kit.
>
>It might be called "power state on power failure" or something like that.
>

That would be the step *after* the f/w update I assume?

The hard drive is partitioned into several sections and Windows is on one which
has been shrunk to leave space for the other systems, where the two Ubuntus are
on 2 separate partitions. Some of my data (a svn server data store for instance)
occupy separate partitions too.

My Ubuntu server is the one I am concerned about, I don't need the GUI Ubuntu
version at all. Nor Windows, but it seems like Lenovo will not like hosing
that...



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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden