@nprofile1q... I had a Dell system once, that always said there was a firmware update. I would run Dell's tool, it would say "install success, rebooting" then after reboot the icon in the Windows taskbar would show an update pending and it would be the update that had just "installed successfully". No matter what method I tried to use to perform the firmware update, it would always do the "success" and then reboot to "update required".