Latest BIOS (01.11.04 Rev.A) for ZBook Fury G9 is faulty or corrupted

[Bluesky2014]

Hi,

Just to report my experience with new BIOS update.

Using ZBook Fury G9 for live streaming. Trying to keep it up to date and clean, with only few apps on it.

Updated to latest BIOS 01.11.04 Rev.A few weeks ago, by manually downloading it via HP support page. The computer updated the bios but became totally unusable. Able to boot to Windows 11 Pro, but it always crashes after 5-30 seconds. Blue screen of death. Needs manual reboot, etc. And it is constant loop doing the same thing after reboot. After half-day trying to resolve the issue, I've managed to reinstall previous BIOS version. All good afterwards. No issues with the old bios. Totaly stable (I need stability for live streaming, etc ).

Forgotten about it, but last week Windows updated Bios again via Windows Automatic Update. Same thing happened. Constant crashes & freezing, & BSOD. Needed to do the same thing again and restore the old/previous version.
So, definitely the issue with the lastest BIOS! Currently disabled Automatic Windows Updates, but that is not a solution. BIOS needs replacing or removing from the HP website & windows update channel.

Note: I've notified HP support about the issue (3-4 week ago). Computer still under warranty, etc.

Also, if somebody would report same experience, that would be great. It would mean it is not only me or my laptop.

System: ZBook Fury 16 G9, A3000, 64gb RAM, 512gb & 2tb SSD, 1920x1200 screen.

Many Thanks

B

[MikeBTET]

Same issue here, PC running Windows 10 22H2 Enterprise.  Performance is jacked and multiple BSoD's ranging from memory to NVMe miniport, to nt, etc, etc.  Just rolled back to 1.10 to see if the system, becomes stable again

[Bluesky2014]

Update...

Thanks for the info.

Funny enough, same thing happened again today. Microsoft (Windows 11 Pro) pushed same bios/firmware update again (v01.11.04) two days ago.

Same thing happened, computer becomes unusable. Total freeze, needed hard reboot/shutdown, etc.

Last time we've learned our lesson and created backup BIOS USB flash drive (v01.10). Used that one as recovery solution.

And we now also created group policy in Windows to disable automatic driver updates, etc.

This should not be happening on this class of device i.e. high-level workstation/enterprise laptop.

It is sometimes used in mission/critical applications and we need absolute reliability & stability.

Many thanks.

B

[Carletto85]

Hi! Thank you for your suggestion. I'm struggling finding the v1.10 to rollback but seems unfindable.

Do you have a copy please to send to me or a link to download?

And...how you did the rollback? In my Zbook fury 16 g9 i don't have in bios the option update from usb media...

Could be done directly from windows?

Thank you for your help!

[Bluesky2014]

re: Carletto85

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/hp-zbook-fury-16-g9-mobile-workstation-pc/2101189376

(will be in the BIOS section, previous version, expand that, ...)

To make a USB recovery bios, there is an option to create it when you try to install BIOS.exe manualy. I think it is possible to do it from other computer if yours is broken, etc.

FYI... My final solution was to disable BIOS update via actual BIOS settings. That way I can enable windows update and it will not trigger automatic bios update on boot.

Cheers

[Bluesky2014]

Update: New BIOS 1.12.01 released (13th September)

After multiple testing and updates, same issues as 1.11.

Computer is unstable and constant BSOD, every time/reboot. Get stuck on reboot (Recovery screen) and/or not even able to login to windows.

Back to 1.10 and everything is OK... Conclusion: BIOS 1.12.01 is no good 😞