New BIOS F.40 available at HP site

[RehabMan]

After reading through the comments, to confirm we can run the F.40 update w/o having to change our DSDTs - the changes looked very minimal to the DSDT code

Confirmed for 4530s. Don't know about 4x40s... People who have them would need to do the diff that I did...

 

[kevinwalter]

Confirmed for 4530s. Don't know about 4x40s... People who have them would need to do the diff that I did...

So, what do you recommend? Update the Bios or wait for you to bring a new DSDT? Edit: So the 4530s can update without any changes?

 

[RehabMan]

So, what do you recommend? Update the Bios or wait for you to bring a new DSDT? Edit: So the 4530s can update without any changes?

It is always recommended that you patch your own DSDT. My experience was that there were no material changes in DSDT from F.30 to F.40 for the 4530s. If you don't know how to check, then you should just patch your DSDT and replace it...

 

[Big]

I don't know if these are "real" changes, but here's the difference between my F30 and F40 DSDTs. Only two changes aside from checksum and definition block:

OperationRegion (HPD2, SystemMemory, 0xBCE6CF18, 0x6D)

OperationRegion (HPD2, SystemMemory, 0xBCE4CF18, 0x6D)

and

Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
{
Store (Package (0x13)
{
"device-id",
Buffer (0x04)
{
0x26, 0x1C, 0x00, 0x00
},

Method (_DSM, 4, NotSerialized) // _DSM: Device-Specific Method
{
Store (Package (0x13)
{
"device-id",
Buffer (0x04)
{
0x2D, 0x1C, 0x00, 0x00
},

After upgrading from F.30 to F.40 my Geekbench went down about 100 points (tested a couple of times)

 

[RehabMan]

I don't know if these are "real" changes, but here's the difference between my F30 and F40 DSDTs.

First change is exactly the kind of thing that forces a re-patch: locations of system memory. It could have been the BIOS upgrade or some other configuration change you made since you last patched your DSDT.

Second change is a change in the patches themselves... since you last patched.

 

[Big]

So it's a good thing I generated a new DSDT

 

[speedyrazor]

Hi, I finally updated my 4530s to F.40 bios. I don't have dual boot, only 10.8.3, so on another Windows laptop I created an HP USB bios update stick, each time I created the disc it completed successfully but when I booted it in my Probook I got "invalid system disk", this was with a 4GB disk, which was the problem. I dug out an old 8MB USB card and repeated the process, but this time the bios update was successful. I read somewhere else that you MUST use a very small USB card, under 4GB.

Hope this helps someone.

 

[arisdario]

Is available for 4530s , update it usb.

Use a small usb drive 128MB or 256MB, Format it with the "sp61104.exe" installer.
Reboot
Press Esc
F9
USB Drive

Update > F10 > It will ask you for Anti-Theft Press F10, Wait to see the confirmation and Exit.

That's it, you have a new optimized bios.

 

[dj_Duff]

Guys, has anyone updated your 4x40s BIOS to latest F.41?
Is everything working fine?
Is DSDT patcher from Probook Installer 6.1 working correctly with this BIOS?

Version: F.41 (24 May 2013)

Fixes

- Fixes an issue where the Bluetooth and WWAN information are not displayed correctly in the F10 BIOS Setup.
- Fixes an issue where the name of the vendor of the memory module is not displayed correctly in F10 BIOS Setup.
- Fixes an issue where system does not boot properly from a Verbatim 3.0 USB drive.
- Fixes an issue where the wake on LAN feature does not function properly when the system is operating in the UEFI native mode.
- Fixes an issue where the system does not power on (boot) correctly after the PXE IPv4 and IPv6 network protocols are disabled in the F10 BIOS Setup.
- Fixes an issue where an external USB keyboard connected to the system does not function properly when using Checkpoint on the system.
- Fixes an issue which causes unintended keystrokes to be activated.
- Fixes an issue where the battery does not charge properly.

Enhancements

- Provides support to separately enable and disable GPS devices and Wireless WAN devices in the F10 BIOS Setup.
- Provides the updated Graphics Output Protocol (GOP) driver.
- Provides the updated Intel Management Engine driver.

Link: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...wLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-120422-1

 

[Don_Grappler]

Guys, has anyone updated your 4x40s BIOS to latest F.41?
Is everything working fine?
Is DSDT patcher from Probook Installer 6.1 working correctly with this BIOS?

I did, with the PBI6.1. Noted no issues, but did not thoroughly test everything.