Comment 6 for bug 1374212

Chris,

Thank for for the BIOS update information. I dl'd the BIOS update and
applied it to my laptop. I upgraded from A02 -> A04, new Dell laptop
bought in Sep '14 had old BIOS even though BIOS A04 was released in May.

I ran the command you requested:

 >>
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version & sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
[1] 2872
A04
05/09/2014

 >>

As I just applied this BIOS so I will run for a day and determine if it
helped any.

Thanks

On 09/28/2014 03:20 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> Phil, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/inspiron-15-5547-laptop/drivers an update to your BIOS is available (A04). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BiosUpdate does it change anything? If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
> sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
>
> Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
> posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
> have to create a new bug report.
>
> For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
> .
>
> Once the BIOS is updated, then please mark this report Status Confirmed.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> ** Tags added: latest-bios-a04
>
> ** Tags removed: latest-bios-a04
> ** Tags added: bios-outdated-a04
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>