Re: HP Laptop freezes while using Xorg sporadically.

From: Liam Proven <liam.proven_at_sitpub.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:25:23 UTC 
On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 at 17:12, Mauricio <humo3302@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess the firmware updates could be useful if they had them for FreeBSD too. From what I can see, they're only available for Windows, and the only system installed in my laptop at the moment is FreeBSD.

This is why almost all my computers dual-boot. I virtually never use
Windows but it's handy to keep it around for things like firmware
updates.

This morning, I rebootked into a long-idle copy of Win10 just to make
a ChromeOS Flex bootable USB for a colleague, for instance.

There are other ways. _Some_ modern firmware can load an update file
from a FAT-formatted medium -- such as the UEFI system partition,
conceivably -- and install it from there. Or, maybe, from a USB key.

Or you could try booting into a live Windows medium such as Hiren's Boot CD.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/


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