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4 It is strongly recommended that as part of the installation procedure, you
5 upgrade your system's BIOS to the latest version available from your system
7 Later BIOSes often contain workarounds for CPU and chipset bugs,
8 workarounds that cannot be provided by the operating system.
10 In the past, bugs fixed this way have been known to cause unpredictable
11 behaviour and frequent system crashes with
15 operating systems on x86 hardware.