Omen 15 BIOS F.19 Rev A issues

[MasterTB]

Hi, I posted this message on the general notebooks forums but I think I should have asked here:

"I have an OMEN 15 (2018) with an i7 7700HQ and a Nvidia 1060maxQ, and despite some thermal issues when doing long gaming sessions I've had no problems playing games with this baby, UNTIL BIOS UPDATE F.19 REV A FROM APRIL 2019.

I installed this bios update yesterday and as soon as I launched a game I saw Thermal and Power Throttling warnings on my GPU (noted with MSI Afterburner and CPUID HWmonitor).

In games like The Division 2, where I was doing 50+ frames on medium settings I'm now stuck at 25+ with lots of stuttering and screen efects (tearing, etc).

The NEW temperature limit seems to kick in at 45°C #$%&!!! The GPU it's stuck at 1063Mhz where before it wolud go beyond 1400!!!!

This is seriously messed UP, I want this changes reverted, this is idiotic. Only a moron would do this to a gaming laptop.

It has completely ruined my notebook for good.

Is there any chance the "person"(insert adjective here) who released this can revert the changes????? "

The changes where also noticeable while in windows. Tasks like web browsing on Chrome/Opera or even Edge (the old and new chromium based Edge) where sluggish since browsers now are heavily dependant on GPU to render web pages.

Now, I should clarify that I have reverted to F.18 and things are back to normal, as per CPUIDHWmonitor and MSI Afterburner my GPU speed tops at 1600+ when cool and 1473 when hot, IT'S A MASSIVE DIFFERENCE!.

So, WHY HP? WHY IN HELL would you do this?

[George-mk]

Hello mate,

I saw your problem and i felt like I could help. I am not a tech or something but i guess you could use the system restore from windows and restore your laptop to a point before you install the bios update. Try that and let me know if it worked, maybe I saved your day haha 🙂

[MasterTB]

Thanks but a Windows restore would NOT change the bios as this is a Hardware change.

Also, as I mentioned in the post, I already did a downgrade to the previous BIOS using the tools provided by HP.

I think the best would be to get some sort of explanation from HP as to wether this is intentional or a bug in the BIOS because this drastic limitations in functionality ARE NOT GOOD, AT ALL, and unless they are trying to masquerade some really nasty hardware issues with the laptops, they should have NOT implemented this changes.