<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Liam,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 12:20, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Don't be a hero. Keep Windows around, even if just for flashing your<br>
firmware. It's not being a coward: it's being pragmatic.<br>
<br>
And if 3rd party external kit needs Windows, well, yes, you're right<br>
-- don't buy it. :-(<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I needed to flash the BIOS on a Dell desktop PC not so long ago. In the end I used my only Windows device - a netbook - to create a USB flash drive based Windows 10 installer media. Then I installed Windows 10 on the desktop PC. Then I ran the Dell provided programme to flash the BIOS. It solved the issue (not recognising all of 4 x 1 GiB of recently upgraded memory. Then I wiped the system and reinstalled Linux.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br clear="all"></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>