Wrong Bios Version

[MIBayrak]

Hi,

I Have a HP Victus 16-d1008NT laptop.

And this is my Driver update page from HP:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/victus-by-hp-16.1-inch-gaming-laptop-pc-16-d1000/21...

My Problem:

I updated my Windows 11 version from 21H2 to 22H2 version with Insider Preview . My bios version updated after this windows upgrade F.06 >> F.10 . But F.10 bios is not correct bios for my laptop. If you look driver page you will see this " Latest Bios version is F.06" but i dont know How windows updated my bios from f.06 to f.10.

After this Bios , CPU Single Core performance downed - 20%. My cpu had 4.7ghz  single core boost clockbefore this bios update, now my cpu has 4.1 ghz single core boost clock.... 

I tried downgrade my bios version but this is not working, i think HP  not allow to downgrade bios version.

So i need a big help...

[ub6424]

Hello @MIBayrak 

Sorry to hear that you are having problems ... I would like to help you.

Let me check your current system configuration.

(1) Run    msinfo32

- Select <System Summary>:

--->>> Copy/paste following key/value pairs:

OS Name

Version

System Model

System SKU ( equals HP product number (p/n) )

Processor

BIOS Version/Date

(2) Please report your results

[MIBayrak]

Hello @Ub6424

OS Name : Microsoft Windows 11 Home Insider Preview

Version : 10.0.25206 Build 25206

System Model Victus by HP Laptop 16-d1xxx

System SKU  6G0D6EA#AB8

Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H, 2300 Mhz, 14 Çekirdek, 20 Mantıksal İşlemci

BIOS Version/Date AMI F.10, 24.08.2022

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just upgraded with Insider Preview version.

[ub6424]

Hello @MIBayrak 

(1) Something is wrong here. It looks like HP rolled out BIOS F.10 some time ago and it caused problems because it's currently no longer available in HP software repository. This is suspicious !

(2) Bad news: HP prevents BIOS downgrade !

Latest bios -> BIOS F.06 Rev.A

(3) HP warranty valid -> Contact HP Support. They should fix everything

Kind reagards

[MIBayrak]

thank you, i will call the HP Support tomorrow

[ub6424]

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@MIBayrak wrote:

thank you, i will call the HP Support tomorrow

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You're welcome !

Keep me updated

Good luck

[TzortzisG]

MIBayrak,

just so you know you can do it yourself. There have been many successful rollbacks on Victus 16 machines with the Win+B trick.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/Hp-victus-not-booting-after-bio...

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/HP-Victus-16-in-a-bootloop-afte...

Ask around on those threads if you need more help.....

[MIBayrak]

hi, my latest bios version is F.06 but windows updated my bios to f.10. But this bios is not correct for my laptop and i cant rollback cause hp not allow bios downgrade. So these solutions not working for me. But thanks for your reply

[MIBayrak]

hi again,

i called Support and they told me that; "you must wait to new bios update... We cant do anythink for this problem..."

so i use the laptop with wrong bios...

[TzortzisG]

According to the announcement by HP https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c07009542 several months after the whitepaper, Microsoft got rights to update the firmware on our BIOS chips as they saw fit.  This is why you can't see the BIOS version on HP site. MS Windoze gave it to you, not HP.

Anyways, as I said earlier the Victus 16s can downgrade successfuly with keyboard Hotkey Win+B. You will use version F.06 from HP site and downgrade to that.... Please visit one of the relevant threads I posted earlier to ask for the specifics from people that have actually done it. However, it's 100% doable according to the posts.... And there are many such posts spanning out for many years.

There is also this altenative method:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-System-and-Recovery/HP-Victus-Laptop-PC-16-e0000-45...