Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Spectre and Meltdown mess continues with Dell now recommending their customers to not install the BIOS updates that are supposed to resolve the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerabilities. These updates have been causing numerous problems for users including performance issues, boot issues, reboot issues, and general system stability. Due to this, Dell EMC has updated its knowledgebase article with a statement advising customers to not install the BIOS update and to potentially rollback to the previous BIOS if their computers are exhibiting "unpredictable system behavior". ZDNet reports that HP too has issued a similar advisory. The computer manufacturer pulled its softpaqs BIOS updates with Intel's patches from its website, and said it would be releasing a BIOS update with a previous version of Intel's microcode on Thursday.

Comments

Re:So far so good on my Gigabyte motherboard

[110010001000]

Thanks. We will let HP and Dell know.

Re:Spectre cannot be even practically exploited.

[mwvdlee]

fast, but inferior in every other aspect products.

Intel CPU's are fast in the same way that a car goes fast after you drive it off a cliff.