Re: Battery drain with poweroff

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 08.02.2021 18:04, Marko Randjelovic wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100
> Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> > Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot
> > Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the
> > backup image I made.
> >       
> There is a program named 'flashrom' in Debian, but I don't know how
> reliable is it as BIOS flash is quite a dangerous operation. I decided
> to risk several years ago on an AMD system with MSI motherboard and was
> successful.
>
> Regards,
> Marko
>     
    It won't help in this case, because BIOS update from Acer is
    actually a package without plain binary ROM file.
    'flashrom' could be used to backup original BIOS to file, before
    updating, but I doubt it is necessary.
    
-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

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