BIOS rollback? What's the deal?

[aktechie]

My laptop is a DV7-3067CL with F.12 as the BIOS that came installed with it. I checked for updates a year ago and went to F.15, and checked it not too long ago and now it's F.13 now! What's the deal on that, the F.15 BIOS got discontinued or what?

[Mumbodog]

If you did indeed install F15, (which does not exist on the site) then there is no way it got rolled back unless you did it.

[aktechie]

Sorry, I didn't clarify what I meant. On the site to download updated drivers, it rolled back to F.13 while I have F.15 as my current BIOS from a year back. Was there any problems with F.14 and F.15 that made the HP Support and Downloads site roll the BIOS update back to F.13?

[Mumbodog]

Looks like they did, this happens when they roll out bios updates that cause problems on some hardware.

If you don't have any issues I would not roll back.

There can be other reasons, like added bios features that were not intended to be released but slipped out unoticed then pulled when discovered, rare but have seen this on the Dell site.

[aktechie]

Oh okay, thanks.

No issues so far, so no rolling back for me