Why do we need to power down our machine before a BIOS update?

Question

Please help me understand.

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Answer 1

What? It’s not powering down before a BIOS update that is important, its not powering off while doing one.

As for semantics, often you have to use your. Motherboard’s flashing utility, but there’s no reason an OS can’t flash the bios. As a matter of fact that’s how we do it in the cloud.