Minisforum BD790i BIOS 1.09 (mediafire, wtf?)

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

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

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

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.

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

Please make a new forum topic