BIOS update HP 350 G1 from f.11 to f.12

[grstaik]

Since 3 months I own a HP 350 G1 F7Y99EA, which was upgraded to 8GB and a mSata Kingston mS200 120GB SSD was added as well.

My system drive is on HDD but the OS (Win7 pro x64) is on the SSD and I am booting from there.

I already have the 4th motherboard (!!!) since the first (BIOS f.13) didn't have the mSata port, the second (BIOS f.12) was getting BSOD error 0x0000007b and the 3rd (BIOS f.13) was producing invalid BIOS checksum and resetting.

So the current MB (4th, BIOS f.11) is functioning perfectly and is very fast.

Windows was installed by me on the HDD at the beginning (1st MB) and later migrated to the SSD.

My QUESTION and my help request:

Should I update BIOS to f.12 ?

(that's the current version HP is offering, they don't offer f.13 (!!!) and as they point out: 'NOTE: HP strongly recommends transitioning promptly to this updated BIOS version. ')

I would have ignored it, if I hadn't noticed that with the f.11 BIOS my SSD is about 20% down on performance (measured with Passmark performance test 8). I should also mention, that the 3D graphics performance is up by about 66%. No changes made to graphics or SSD.

The f.11 BIOS is also available for download, would it be possible after updating to f.12 to go back to f.11?

Thank you, I would appreciate your opinions

Greg

[grstaik · Accepted solution]

Update:

I updated BIOS to f.12, everything perfectly allright.

The performance issues for the SSD and Graphics were solved by optimizing settings and installing new drivers!