Update Bios Question.

I have a 2 year old Polisy. I did the new hard drive version of upgrading it. New hard drive came with IoP 5.4.4 and PG3. When I click the button for TPM it does bring up the password setting window. Elsewhere here it has been said that means I have the latest Bios. But the button is not greyed out and when I press it it does bring up the "are you crazy, you are going to brick your system" warning.

I would assume I have old Bios, as that would reside on the Polisy hardware right? The new hard drive would not have that on it, right? But it seems like I am up to date because it looks like I can enable TPM?

1. Should I do the Bios update? I am scared.

2. Do I need to enable TPM? Why should I care about adding another layer of complexity?

Update Bios Question.
I have a 2 year old Polisy. I did the new hard drive version of upgrading it. New hard drive came with IoP 5.4.4 and PG3. When I click the button for TPM it does bring up the password setting window. Elsewhere here it has been said that means I have the latest Bios. But the button is not greyed out and when I press it it does bring up the "are you crazy, you are going to brick your system" warning.
I would assume I have old Bios, as that would reside on the Polisy hardware right? The new hard drive would not have that on it, right? But it seems like I am up to date because it looks like I can enable TPM?
1. Should I do the Bios update? I am scared.
2. Do I need to enable TPM? Why should I care about adding another layer of complexity?

Mine is the same after I did the BIOS update. Nothing happens when I click it again though.

If the BIOS was the old version newer polyglots wouldn't run.

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@Illusion since you went the new hard drive approach I would suggest opening a support ticket to ask this specific question before proceeding. Since it warns you that you could brick your system you don't want to mess up what you just got updated.

So better safe than sorry at this point just to confirm the steps to update from where you are currently.

Submit a Ticket:       https://www.universal-devices.com/my-tickets

 

If the BIOS was the old version newer polyglots wouldn't run.

Well, my PG3 polyglots run. But I don’t understand how I could have the new bios. Unless it’s somehow automatically installed on first boot.

Since @Michel Kohanim liked the suggestion to open a ticket I will do that.


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7 hours ago, Illusion said:

 

Well, my PG3 polyglots run. But I don’t understand how I could have the new bios. Unless it’s somehow automatically installed on first boot.

Since @Michel Kohanim liked the suggestion to open a ticket I will do that.


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"New hard drive came with IoP 5.4.4 and PG3."

It likely came with the newer BIOS installed. Only the much older polisies came needing an upgrade

8 minutes ago, larryllix said:

It likely came with the newer BIOS installed.

The bios lives on the hard drive? Interesting...

25 minutes ago, mmb said:

The bios lives on the hard drive? Interesting...

No. That wasn't stated or implied.

AFAIK the bios comes on an eprom of some kind. However the BIOS can be upgraded by SSD or downloaded images that UDI has supplied to do just that.

PG3 and IoP are not the same firmware as the BIOS firmware.

Edited November 1, 20222 yr by larryllix

@larryllix thanks for clarifying your post.