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‎04-21-2023 09:07 AM

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So I have an HP Pavilion Gaming 15-EC2000 (Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB DDR4, GTX1650, Win 11, NVME SSD) which I use for the sole purpose of playing some light games (CS, Rocketleague and some older stuff). This has served me fine and I was happy with it.

However, last night a BIOS update was installed via Windows Update which completely killed my Laptop's performance. It will stutter everywhere, loading games takes forever, FPS varies between 10 and 30... Yes I do have updated drivers (clean windows install) and the issue still remains. AIDA shows that I have F24 Bios when that version is not even listed on HPs support website - last version is supposed to be F23.A, which is the one I had before this update (**bleep** HP?!).

I have tried manually creating a BIOS USB Recovery and using the Win+B combination. It does display the BIOS update screen on boot and looks as if the BIOS is being upgraded while writing the 256 blocks. At the end it displays a 500 BIOS Error and upon restarting I can see the BIOS is still the same F24 and that the stutters are still here. Looks as if the Laptop has some sort of protection to avoid BIOS downgrade.

Has anyone else had this issue? The laptop is now complete rubbish and warranty just ran off a couple of months ago (talk about planned obsolescence). I am completely at the mercy of these HP updates. Possibly never purchasing something from HP ever again

Thanks in advance

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