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Why the fuck would you even need to update the monitor firmware. It's a screen, that displays things.
For example, MSI's OLED panel care program was extremely aggressive when these panels were new, out of an abundance of caution.
They continued their research and burn-in testing, and concluded that their monitors would be fine over the years. An update was made to allow for longer periods before panel care was required, as well as disabling the pop up that would frequently interrupt usage and couldn't be skipped. Now their monitors will trigger it automatically whenever it's powered off.
I am very confused as well.
Must be one of those new fangled ones with "advanced features" that do stuff like game overlay or aim assist or whatever the kids need their monitor to do these days
You evidently have displayport, so the solution seems pretty straightforward. Pull hard disks, install windows on a blank SSD. Send series of nastygrams to MSI.
I had the same issue for a Lenovo bios update. I finally just installed windows to go on an ssd memory stick and booted that to do the update.
Use a windows VM and then make sure that your hypervisor is properly passing thru the USB device/connection to the monitor to the windows guest vm. Not sure why you'd need a windows host OS for this.
It doesn't have a USB 😔
That's weird. I was looking at this docs page and assumed that USB is how the update actually happened.
What does a monitor need a firmware update for, anyway?
I was in a very similar situation not too long ago, and my solution was also to just have a spare ssd, install windows on it, make the update and then go back. I tried to use a pe version of windows, as well a full blown windows on a USB. These solutions just didn't work as expected, somehow the update would always fail. Windows on a proper ssd worked
You already tested with a standard Windows 10/11 install ISO? Put that on a bootable USB along with your exe but instead of installing you go into the recovery options and should see a way to get to the cmd prompt where you can test run that .exe. It might have the same results as Windows PE but it's worth a try and downloading the Windows ISO is free anyway.
Worst case if you have a spare HDD/SSD you can put that into your system, temporarily install Windows 10/11 onto it (I don't think you even need to worry about activation), run your .exe, then shutdown and swap your drives back to your normal setup and be done with it.
But yeah I get what you're saying, ideally there's a better way but I'm not too sure what else to suggest within Linux itself.
Boot a proper Windows PE / to go from usb, you can create it via https://github.com/PhoenixPE/PhoenixPE
How did you create yours?
So I actually killed my previous linux distro using hirens bootcd, and the firmware update didnt work for whatever strange reason but windows inserted random shit into my partition on boot. maybe phoenix pe would work idk, i'll see if a laptop can handle it
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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