Minisforum BD790i BIOS 1.09 (mediafire, wtf?)

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I just downloaded the 1.09 BIOS for the BD790i.
This requires navigating through a barrage of pop-ups and click-phishes.

It is unprofessional for a hardware company to host their downloads on a malware distribution site. I tried to find where other customers complained about this, but I didn’t find anything. When did this become normal?

I’m really enjoying this motherboard. It works great as a platform for my workload (ubuntu + GPU). I’m re-installing the OS from scratch this weekend, so I checked for the BIOS update as part of my prep.

If minisforum posted their checksums on their website, so I could verify the download, at least that would be something. For now, I’m not installing this BIOS.

-Mark

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It’s a Chinese company that barely has any margins, you’re Lucky you get bios updates.

It’s pretty much standard practice to use an ad blocker, I’d argue it’s a better defence again malware than most antivirus

It’s a much better solution than most small Chinese companies that host it in their own site with their own special brand of ccp malware and slow download speeds

I tried to download drivers from beelink and I was getting DSL speeds, it was 2.6GB zip with all the drivers bundled instead each having their own download, it took 3 hours

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You get what you pay for and good luck getting security updates

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Ok, I can see that the download performance might be better/cheaper from mediafire.com. I can accept that.

It would be nice if they posted a hash on their official website, so I can be sure the file I download is the official file.

get what you pay for… security updates

Also fair. Who’s to say if any version of any low-margin firmware was ever secure.

Thanks for the feedback.

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can you help me i just bought the bd 790i and nothing works! if i plug in a gpu it shuts of, i cant install the bios update and i cant disable secure boot because its gray

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Please make a new forum topic

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Your points are valid. The cost of hosting small bios files on a reputable storage platform like AWS S3 is not going to break the bank for Minisforum. I find that Minisforum does care about customer support from my support tickets with them. They follow up to my requests within 2-3 days so maybe just send them a message about the checksums.

I downloaded the 1.09 and took a look at the readme. Here is the change log since v1.05.

  •      BIOS Release Notice           *

Release Date:
2024/09/29

BIOS Version:
1.09

BIOS Checksum:
A582

BIOS Description:
1.Do Ac power loss from SIO to FCH to fixup some machines can’t on after ac power loss

Release Date:
2024/09/20

BIOS Version:
1.08

BIOS Checksum:
C3F5

BIOS Description:
1.Fixup NV 4060 VGA card can’t display on post some times

Release Date:
2024/08/20

BIOS Version:
1.07

BIOS Checksum:
54FB

BIOS Description:
1.Update audio verbtable
2.Add AOD support follow product engineer’s requirement
3.Update DMI follow product engineer’s requirement

Release Date:
2024/07/16

BIOS Version:
1.06

BIOS Checksum:
1BCF

BIOS Description:
1.Update PI1.0.0.3d
2.Add RAID item in bios setup
3.Add GPIO5 for LAN power control
4.Auto detect DRFXI and DRFXL by GPIO11

Release Date:
2023/12/21

BIOS Version:
1.05

BIOS Checksum:
1608

BIOS Description:
1.Fix nvida 4060/4070/4090 graphics card only working on GEN1 issue

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