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BIOS download issues HP and Dell #226

Open Noizcontroller opened 3 years ago

Noizcontroller commented 3 years ago

Hi

I'm unable to download HP BIOS packages because the tool cannot reach the URL. I'm guessing the tool get's an old cab list which does not work anymore. Can this be fixed please? The new URLs are using https because ftp over http is deprecated if I recall correctly.

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I'm also experiencing issues to download Dell BIOS packages. As soon as you download a second BIOS package, it fails on the flash tool. I think this has been posted a few times already, but I just want to let you know it is still an issue.

Kind regards

Stuart42 commented 3 years ago

I ran into something similar, so I tried wget http://ftp.hp.com/pubs/......cab in a PS console. I got an error about IE and not having done first-launch.

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I used this command to disable the first launch check via Registry, and was able to test with wget successfully. Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" -Name "DisableFirstRunCustomize" -Value 2

This appears to have fixed my download issue.

Maybe a change to the Invoke-WebRequest method to add the use -UseBasicParsing parameter would fix this reliance on the IE engine