Miniforum’s MS-01 BIOS Update

You’d think this would be obvious, but it’s not – hence the article.

Get the BIOS Update

Visit the support page and download the latest BIOS.

Prepare the USB Drive

Using diskpart run the following commands

diskpart
list disk
select disk X  # Replace X with the USB Drive
clean
create partition primary
format fs=fat32 quick

Copy the files from the downloaded zip file into the root of the drive

Download the UEFIShell

Extract the UefiShell/X64/Shell.efi and copy it to the root of the drive.

Your USB drive should look something like the following

D:\>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 267D-A88E

 Directory of D:\

07/25/2023  11:00 PM         1,886,624 Fpt.efi
05/25/2023  12:32 PM         2,444,336 FPTW64.exe
10/14/2024  02:55 PM             7,398 Release_Note.txt
10/14/2024  02:57 PM               203 WinFlash.bat
10/14/2024  02:57 PM                56 AfuEfiFlash.nsh
04/18/2023  11:16 AM           629,680 AfuEfix64.efi
10/14/2024  02:57 PM               207 AfuWinFlash.bat
10/18/2023  01:15 AM         1,127,536 AFUWINx64.exe
10/14/2024  02:22 PM        33,554,432 AHWSA.1.26.bin
04/20/2023  05:20 PM            36,064 amigendrv64.sys
10/14/2024  02:57 PM                44 EfiFlash.nsh
03/05/2020  09:01 AM           939,648 Shell.efi
              12 File(s)     40,626,228 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   3,956,436,992 bytes free

Apply the Update

Enter BIOS (DEL key) and disabled Secure Boot – Security>Secure Boot>Secure Boot: Disabled

Either enter BIOS (DEL key) and select UEFIShell or eter the UEFIShell directly (F7)

Push any key to skip the autorunning of startup.nsh

Change to the USB Drive by entering FS0:

Run ls to ensure it is the correct drive, if not change to another listed drive

Run the update by running the AfuEfiFlash.nsh script

It will reboot on it’s own

Enter BIOS (DEL key) and enable Secure Boot – Security>Secure Boot>Secure Boot: Enabled