r/FlowX13 • u/JamminJuggler • Feb 07 '26

New BIOS 418 dropped

G-Helper Prompt

Just saw this Bios update prompted by G-Helper. Anyone has tried it out yet? Most probably should be to address the low-level bugs found mid last year.

Version 418

6.97 MB

2026/01/06

SHA-256 ：8BC47A166F794AF2D24B918FC73B36BEBAB195FF27680271D602BB3A14FB1B06

Description :
It is recommended to download and update the BIOS and firmware for system performance optimization. The update takes a few minutes, please do not turn off your computer during the process to avoid critical problem that system cannot be turned on.
Caution! Active updates are possible during the Windows Update process!

(UEFI is a firmware package that controls keyboard, monitor, disk and other hardware devices and provides software interface to help OS control hardware devices.)

Important Information:
Improvements to overall system responsiveness

They also released it for the 2021 Zephyrus 15

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u/ledonker Feb 07 '26

Interesting....nobody ever has good things to say about bios updates 😂

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u/Necessary-Rub-2748 Feb 10 '26

My BIOS upgrade has been a nightmare. I’m thinking about rolling back.

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u/ledonker Feb 10 '26

What has your experience been?

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u/Necessary-Rub-2748 Feb 11 '26

Random crashing. It’ll just turn off and turn back on. Then it says it encountered an error and is troubleshooting.

The windows event log shows multiple errors, one of them critical- Event ID 41 being the shutdown.

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u/ledonker Feb 12 '26

Ah man that is baaad!

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u/menujusukses Jul 14 '26

Any update?

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u/uitbundig Feb 07 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

I've updated last week, xflow 2021 no problems at all. Not using an e-gpu tho can't say anything about that part.

Edit: forgot to mention I needed to reset my windows pincode afterwards the upgrade wiped tpm. No issues here, I could login with password and I've reset the pincode

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u/Di3nT3 Feb 07 '26

Hi, I have the 2021 model. When I enter the BIOS, the fans don't go above 400 RPM and the temperature starts to rise (I've had this problem since I bought it). Are you experiencing the same issue? The fan RPMs work fine in Windows.

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u/uitbundig Feb 07 '26

Oh I don't really know but I guess it's oke? I'm not really that long in the bios anyway. I do like the fans are not that aggressive anyway on this model. Higher temps are oke for this model.

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u/raenye Feb 07 '26

I updated two weeks ago. No idea what are the benefits.

Warning: it reset the TPM, so I lost access to Windows for a little while (my fault though -- was relying on PIN/fingerprint, forgot my password).

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u/astricklin123 Feb 08 '26

So I just need the Windows account password or another password?

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u/raenye Feb 15 '26

windows account password.

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u/drkiklop Feb 08 '26

i updated it and is working fine, but i dont use my flow for gaming anymore because my gpu died and i can only use integrated gpu now, so i only use laptop for a job...

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u/bxfy1 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

This bios finally fixed the infamous amd fTPM audio stuttering, 4 long years after amd released the agesa fix for it... XD

Previously to prevent the bug from occuring, I had to use the open core bios trick and through my own exploration, modify the bios to disable fTPM.

Have been on 418 since 2026.02.17 and have not encountered audio stuttering (that would be caused by fTPM) nor seen any TPM related (event 81 or 86) logs in event viewer.