How Long Should a Bios Update Take?
Contents It Should Take Around a Minute, Maybe 2 Minutes. I’d Say If It Takes More Than 5 Minutes I’d Be Worried but I Wouldn’t Mess with the Computer Until I...
It should take around a minute, maybe 2 minutes. I’d say if it takes more than 5 minutes I’d be worried but I wouldn’t mess with the computer until I go over the 10 minute mark. BIOS sizes are these days 16-32 MB and the write speeds are usually 100 KB/s+ so it should take about 10s per MB or less.
Is it dangerous to update BIOS?
Installing (or “flashing”) a new BIOS is more dangerous than updating a simple Windows program, and if something goes wrong during the process, you could end up bricking your computer. … Since BIOS updates don’t usually introduce new features or huge speed boosts, you probably won’t see a huge benefit anyway.
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