Will this bios update fix DSDT problem?

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Published on 2012-12-18T17:13:37Z Indexed on 2012/12/18 17:14 UTC
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Usually is is said that if you are not having any problems do not update your bios. When I'm running windows everything is fine. But for Linux I think the DSDT is broken.

According to this this updating your bios should be preferred before messing with DSDT.

This is the link for a bios update for my laptop but details section says that it fixes some 'start-up' problem. So, should I use this update or not?

thanks.

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