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hey everyone we are working on an msi ge62 laptop i wanted to show a quick video on how to update bios and the ec or embedded controller and we're doing that because based on our thermal readings here we're actually seeing some pretty high thermals on this very specific section of the laptop so if I measure it right now at idle right almost 40 Celsius and once it's under a tiny bit of load maybe 20% CPU load we're getting something close to a Fahrenheit be a bit over 100 degrees Fahrenheit pretty warm very uncomfortable and diagnosing that it seems to be an issue with the fan speed or the fan curve in BIOS and MSI have sent us a patch to fix that so I'm going to show you how to install that so first of all you download for whatever laptop you're using you download the relevant patches and that's going to be an EC patch or embedded controller end of BIOS one and we've got those two folders here and so this is one of them we apply this update through the OS so we can do this through Windows just by double clicking on the correct utility and we've got AC flash and EC bet I'm going to try out you see that that's going to ask us some questions so type Y to start flashing the embedded controller let's do that and then that'll start running the next step is to update BIOS so we can already hear the fan starting to freak out a little bit but when we update BIOS will actually just shut down boot into BIOS and then load the ROM from the USB key that's already plugged in here so to do that step you download the BIOS ROM for whatever your laptop is load it onto a USB key it does yikes I don't know if you can hear that through the mic but I guess some it's working so fans are freaking out right now we're going to let this boot up make sure it's okay and then when we get into BIOS we'll basically load the rom from the USB key it does not need to be a bootable key is all I was trying to say before the fans interrupted me so give this a second and then and then you'll see the next part once we get through this ec update okay okay so now we're going to update the BIOS the EC was correctly updated even though the fans are freaking out so they should all have a better fan control now with the BIOS update included first thing to do is once you're in here obviously hit delete to get in here before booting into Windows and the system information tab will have the EC version right here and the BIOS version you basically just check that number against whatever's on the laptop manufacturers website if it yours is older than it might need an update our EC version was dot 103 before now it is dot 105 so it has definitely been updated and now we're going to go to the Advanced tab and go down to the UEFI BIOS update section and this should be the same for any american megatrends bios basically so we hit enter here UEFI BIOS update gives us a bunch of options these are all just different identifiers for device paths the one we want is this USB device that is the s the USB Drive I have plugged in right now and we're going to go down into the ROM file that I've got the top level and then and then apply that and that will update your BIOS from that point you let it let it go let it shut down cycle power and you should be good to go hopefully with better fan speeds and better thermals so that is a quick fix to fan thermals on these newer laptops if you are having problems where the fans are running high enough and so the CPUs overheating there's a million other things it could be as well but leave a comment below we'll try to help you out or hopefully someone else will with some suggestions thank you for watching if you like this type of coverage as always hit the patreon link the postal video and I'll see you all next time