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Overview

Select your Dasharo firmware flavor:

NovaCustom laptops come with this firmware variant out of the box.

Models

NovaCustom NUC BOX is a compact, high-performance small form factor PC based on Intel® Core™ Ultra (Meteor Lake-H) processors.

NovaCustom V54 is a series of 14 inch laptops based on 14th Generation Intel Core Ultra processors (Meteor Lake):

NovaCustom V56 is a series of 16 inch laptops based on 14th Generation Intel Core Ultra processors (Meteor Lake):

NovaCustom NS5x/7x 12th Gen are 15 and 17 inch laptops based on 12th generation Intel Core processor (Alder Lake):

NovaCustom NV4x 12th Gen is a 14 inch laptop based on 12th generation Intel Core processor (Alder Lake):

NovaCustom NS5x/7x 11th Gen are 15 and 17 inch laptops based on 11th generation Intel Core processor (Tiger Lake):

NovaCustom NV4x 11th Gen is a 14 inch laptop based on 11th generation Intel Core processor (Tiger Lake):

For more information on the hardware, please refer to the links above.

Firmware

A complete Dasharo firmware release consists of the BIOS firmware, and in the case of laptops, also the EC (Embedded Controller) firmware.

They both interact with each other tightly, so keeping their compatible versions in sync is important. Information on compatibility should always be explained on the release pages:

  1. 14 inch, Integrated graphics
  2. 14 inch, Discrete NVIDIA graphics
  3. 16 inch, Integrated graphics
  4. 16 inch, Discrete NVIDIA graphics

Heads-based firmware is offered as a Dasharo Pro Package option.

Note

This section applies to users of the Heads-based firmware version. If you are unsure which firmware version you're using, select coreboot + UEFI instead.

Models

NovaCustom V54 series are 14 inch laptops based on 14th Generation Intel Core Ultra processors (Meteor Lake):

NovaCustom V56 serues are 16 inch laptops based on 14th Generation Intel Core Ultra processors (Meteor Lake):

NovaCustom NV4x 12th Gen is a 14 inch laptop based on 12th generation Intel Core processor (Alder Lake):

For more information on the hardware, please refer to the references in above links.

Firmware

Each firmware release contains the BIOS firmware. Laptop releases additionally contain the EC (Embedded Controller) firmware.

They both interact with each other tightly, so keeping their compatible versions in sync is important. Information on compatibility should always be explained on the release pages:

  1. 16 inch, Integrated graphics