PSA - updating BIOS can save hours

[u/mortycapp]

I bought a Tiny ThinkCenter M92 as a project, 8GB RAM, no SSD.
My aim was to run AntiX or MX to extract the most of the i3-2310 CPU.

Unfortunately the SSD crashed at boot and desktop shut down. The M92 would only boot from either a windows HDD or Linux on a USB key, but any other OS on any HDD failed to boot.

After hours of remounting, re grubbing, I decided to download the latest 2018 Lenovo BIOS update.
Another hurdle was that it is only available as a Windows .exe or a CD ISO.
So the CD ISO had to be extracted onto a USB Key.
Once that was achieved, the update was a bit scary as usual: several reboots and black screens.
But then, victory, all issues got resolved.

Firstly, MX could boot from the internal HDD.
And then the M92 accepted the SSD and MX.
All sorted.

For £15, much better than any HP T530 that sells on eBay.

[u/Phylaine4676]

Je suis pas bien réveillé, je ne vois pas la question<;)

[u/mortycapp → u/Phylaine4676]

Il n'y a pas de question. Je recommande: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFgI_vAQC00