A bios flash is something you may need to do periodically with an older computer—but I didn’t look to have to do it on one only a couple of months old.<\/p>\n
Get this: here I am trying to sync my Ancestry and Family Tree Maker trees…since my tree, combining mine and Jane’s, is 17,000 people—yes, this isn’t rapid.<\/p>\n
But it’s been slow. Way slow. It can take 2 hours when it (or Ancestry) is in a bad mood.<\/p>\n
I was thrilled last night when, just as the process was within 15 minutes of finishing, Seishi nudged the computer with one of his head-butts, and it restarted. <\/p>\n
It was being incredibly slow. Well, turns out in the middle of this process, Dell was trying to get my attention, and was pinging my computer, and doing a slow feed of data in the gaps between. <\/p>\n
At 1 am, I finally got the sync to work, as a square saying ‘Dell Update: urgent: click…’ kept flashing.<\/p>\n
Why not? I click the thing.<\/p>\n
Bios flash.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m really glad Dell’s doing it this way. In the old days, you could have a bios outdated for a year or more and not find it out until something went really wonky and you were down to esoteric fixes.<\/p>\n
But I really wish I’d gotten, in advance, an e-mail from Dell saying: “Hi! A bios flash will be coming your way Monday night!” <\/p>\n
At least it all went smoothly.<\/p>\n
And for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, just say—interrupting that process is Not Good.<\/p>\n
Now it’s up to date and ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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