We would like to get feedback on a new updater for 3.08. This updater changes the way we deploy the bios update. So We would consider it be a alpha release at the moment until we get additional feedback from the community.
There are no changes to the bios itself in this release. Just changes to how the update is applied from the EFI shell script.
This change fixes several issues:
- It checks firmware versions before running any portion of the update. And removes tag files that were used to track if each portion of the update was complete or not. This should fix issues that several users were reporting that they would get script errors during the update which we traced to the fat32 partition becoming read only.
- This moves the update out of the wrapper application that was preventing the CSME update to run successfully. We do not know why the h2offt tool was not able to run this step internally when wrapped.
- This update changes the update process from running each update step 1 at a time with a reboot each time, to staging the updates together on the internal NVME drive. This should improve the ability to complete all steps of the update without having to manually reboot into the update drive after each step. Which some users experienced.
https://downloads.frame.work/bios/Framework_Laptop_13_12th_Gen_Intel_Core_3.08b_EFI.zip
Troubleshooting notes:
- If you experience ports not working after your update. Please shutdown, unplug all power sources, wait 90 seconds, and then power on again.
After we get some positive feedback from the community, we will update the top post with this new version.