Why so many BIOS dumps requests?

[Chungalin]

Which is the real percent of laptop failures that are due to BIOS corruption?

I ask because I'm a bit surprised that about a third of posts in this forum are BIOS requests, while I've never encountered a problem of this kind. Is it that people tries BIOS replacement before attempting something else?

[Sojke]

Re: Why so many BIOS dumps requests?

When not sure it is always best to try the more easier and less risky operations first. BIOS program can fail out of various reasons.

[jiroy]

Re: Why so many BIOS dumps requests?

Well , at least in Acer one's case , their Bioses are always the first thing to check .. Really crappy .

[goontron]

Re: Why so many BIOS dumps requests?

I've seen Lenovos update tool do more harm than good many a time. Hence why i ported Coreboot to my T520i ("i" being the important distinction here, very little of the hardware is the same addresses and the microcode it builds is incorrect, compared to the T520 build option)