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June 4th, 2024 08:07
Using an old bios firmware
Hi, I've been using my laptop fine on firmware 0.1.16.0 but a few days ago Dell pushed 0.1.17.0 out and it has broken my laptop! After 5 minutes of using it I get a BSOD ACPI_BIOS_ERROR which restarts the machine. I can't find a fix for this.
I can revert back to 0.1.16.0 and it works fine but as soon as I restart the laptop it installs 0.1.17.0 and the problem is back
My question is, is it perfectly fine to use an older bios firmware version from a security point of view and secondly if it is, how do I prevent my laptop auto installing 0.1.17.0 which causes this issue?
I have contacted Dell support and got nowhere because my laptop is out of warranty and I really don't want to renew it and pay for a problem to be fixed when Dell have caused it.
Chino de Oro
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June 4th, 2024 08:54
I don't know about perfectly fine. But, the security risk of using older BIOS firmware version on a home environment machine is almost zero, none.
To prevent the BIOS firmware auto update, go to BIOS settings and disable the UEFI firmware capsule updates.
Rambo49
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June 6th, 2024 17:18
On June 3rd, Dell pushed firmware 0.1.17.0 onto my laptop (Inspiron 15 5000). Since that time, my laptop has been crashing every 10 minutes or so - BSOD with code ACPI_BIOS_ERROR. Any suggestions how to fix it? Thanks.
Chino de Oro
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June 7th, 2024 20:41
You can revert to previous BIOS version 0.1.16.0 and go into BIOS settings to disable UEFI firmware capsule.