- Some Lenovo ThinkPad house owners can’t set up BIOS updates due to a safety tweak Microsoft utilized within the newest Home windows patches
- That is taking place to these putting in by way of the Lenovo BIOS Replace Utility or Vantage app
- A repair is inbound already, and as a workaround, you possibly can set up by way of Home windows Replace
Some Lenovo laptops are seeing BIOS updates fail to work because of a change that Microsoft simply made in Home windows 11 (and Home windows 10).
Home windows Newest noticed a help submit from Lenovo addressing the issue which impacts these attempting to use an improve to the BIOS with its ThinkPad notebooks.
Apparently, the problem is because of a tweak Microsoft made to dam a sure executable file (WinFlash64.exe) within the newest patches for Home windows, a change made for safety causes.
When attempting to use a BIOS replace utilizing both Lenovo’s BIOS Replace Utility or the Lenovo Vantage app, some ThinkPad house owners may see the method fail, accompanied by some form of error message. There are just a few errors which may pop up, however all quantity to the identical factor – the replace didn’t work.
What’s taking place is that following the patch, and Microsoft updating its safety blocklist therein, the replace is being detected as a ‘weak driver,’ which means that it’s a danger to the system – therefore Home windows refuses to run the method.
As talked about, the adjustments to the blocklist have been made within the newest patches for Home windows 11 24H2, 23H2, and 22H2, together with Home windows 10 22H2 – all energetic variations of Microsoft’s desktop OS, in different phrases.
A repair is already inbound – or you should utilize Home windows Replace as an alternative
As Home windows Newest factors out, usually Lenovo recommends utilizing its BIOS Replace Utility for refreshing your laptop computer’s firmware, because it’s usually extra dependable than different strategies.
Clearly given this new concern, that isn’t the case, and so the simplest method to work across the glitch is to make use of Home windows Replace to use the BIOS replace to your Lenovo ThinkPad. That’s, assuming that Home windows 11 (or 10) has discovered the related patch and flagged it below Home windows Replace. If not, all you are able to do is maintain checking for updates and hope it turns up quickly sufficient.
In the meantime, Lenovo has been engaged on remedying this drawback, and in line with Home windows Newest, a repair is in place with the most recent BIOS model (v1.61) that’s rolling out. So, for those who can bag that newest spin on the BIOS, it ought to work okay putting in by way of Lenovo’s BIOS Replace Utility – fingers crossed.
At any price, this needs to be a brief hiccup for Lenovo ThinkPad house owners, nevertheless it’s fairly unusual {that a} BIOS replace could be flagged as a danger like this within the first place. That mentioned, in fact there’s all the time a small stage of danger concerned in any BIOS replace – such is the character of the beast – and if you wish to learn up extra on the proper process for making use of these, to ensure you get it proper, we’ve bought an article devoted to simply that.
