why update the bios at all, unless it's needed, is it ? On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Miller, Todd <[email protected]> wrote:
> I used to use 32bit WinPE to deploy both 64bit and 32bit OSes. But > something happened a few months back where I had to switch so that the > bitness of WinPE matched the OS being deployed. I think it was caused by > driver injection problems, but I can’t remember exactly. I feel like I > read the advice on DeploymentResearch.com, but I can’t find the post now. > Anyway, matching the bitness fixed my problem. > > > > > > Now I am in a little trouble with this because I would like to update the > BIOS on Dell computers during OS Deployment and it looks like Dell only has > 32 bit versions of the BIOS updates available. I think I cannot run a > 32bit executable to update BIOS while I am booted into a 64bit WinPE > version. I could briefly boot into a 32bit WinPE boot disk while updating > the BIOS and then continue on in WinPE 64bit, but the only two options for > rebooting are into the Full OS or into the WinPE boot disk assigned to the > Task Sequence. Is there a way for me to reboot into a specified WinPE > image, update the BIOS, and then reboot back into the WinPE that is > assigned to the task sequence? > > > > Is there a way out of this problem? > > > > One thing I can think of would be to do the BIOS update as a prehook > before the real Task Sequence starts… > > > ------------------------------ > Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by > the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is > confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, > distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, > then delete it. Thank you. > ------------------------------ >
