![]() I have a really bad feeling about doing that, as it is (as someone else has pointed out here already) irreversible, whether it is done right or not. Now, one question about the additional BIOS update needed to complete the Meltdown and Spectre issues: But this does not mean that such a thing is not possible. I don’t know what else, besides loading pages and streaming video+audio, could one do with a browser that would show a more significant slowdown. Firefox no longer in my Windows PC, after the Quantum version, supposedly super-fast, turned out to be super-slow in my machine, for whatever reason, and I suspected it might be causing some logout troubles that started right after the Quantum update. Firefox, updated in the Mac, works also same as before, that I have noticed. ![]() Same story in the Mac with Apple’s Safari, after updating it, with its fix, as well. Pages loaded as quickly as before the patching. Have tested this by streaming some YouTube music+video in high resolution: it has loaded, played and sounded just fine. It has the same fix for Spectre as Firefox. I have Waterfox in both Windows 7 (SP1, Pro, 圆4) PC (circa 2011) and Mac (Macbook Pro, circa 2015) and I have updated it to 50.0.2 in both, without noticing any slowdown. SInce all the support info is now net based (oh, you did go to the OEM website and download the technical manuals first, right? Oh, they were dated 3 years prior… oops.), not having a backup PC or device to research how to fix it is like not having a life jacket in a boat. In a nutshell, if I did a BIOS or firmware update and it slowed the PC, I would either learn to live with it, or at least have a backup PC for use, before I even attempted to try to undo any update. My experiences with UEFI is much more limited, and have been smooth, but I have read of some problems. In fact most MB manufacturers caution against BIOS updates if your system is running well and has not exhibited the issues in the change log. I never race to install any BIOS or firmware update, and research as many sources as I can first. Sure there are now Windows based installs that are easy and usually reliable, and some even save a backup of the old BIOS, but if there is an error and you can no longer boot it gets pretty scary. The foulball is when you attempt it and you brick the system into an unusable or unrepairable state.īIOS updates and many firmware updates are not in my mind an average user thing, especially when they read the support literature cautions and are justifiably nervous. Therefore you cannot regress back and you have to live with the new BIOS. It may also be impossible (or at least have dire warning from the manufacturer) that installing an older version is not allowed. You “may be able” to try re-installing the older BIOS or firmware update to fix the a problem. However lets say the new BIOS or firmware update gives an unforseen problem on your system. In the real world this works out to you successfully are able to install the new BIOS or firmware. In the past, I have found BIOS installs and rollbacks are like baseball, you hit, miss or have a foulball. You are so correct in your implication about BIOS/firmware updates.įirmware and especially BIOS updates are far more risky. ![]() When I went to the MS Update Catalog, the January patches did say they were able to be removed. I wonder if Intel is selling their affected CPUs on a ~5 – ~30% price discount… I don’t want to spend money on a new laptop that still has a faulty CPU. There again, on this very old and very usable laptop, any performance tick is squeezed up to the maximum as this is still a very usable “typewriter” and I don’t want the ~5 – ~30% performance drop. On Linux Mint Debian Edition 2 I use everyday on them, I’ve installed the 4.14.0 Kernel that still hasn’t implemented the software workarounds for Specter and Meltdown. I’ve saved the update files on a backup HDD, just in case for the future. I’ve had no problems and I haven’t noticed much slowdown because I barely use Windows on them.Įither way, I’ve uninstalled the updates on both machines because I think I’ll lose more with the performance slowdown compared with the potential exploitation risk AT THIS MOMENT. On both this 10 year old 32 bits Single core Intel Atom N280 (-HT-) clocked at 1666 Mhz Kernel~4.14.0-12.1-liquorix-686-pae i686 and on my other 4 or 5 years old Intel i3, I’ve beta tested the Windows 8.1 Security Only January updates.
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