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Razer Blade 18 (2024 - RTX4090) Bios Update From 1.04 to 1.06 Does Nothing

  • April 1, 2026
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TLDR: BIOS update from 1.04 to 1.06 for the Razer Blade 18 (2024) with RTX 4090 initially appears to complete successfully but after reboot the BIOS version is still stuck on 1.04 so it seems the update is doing nothing while also not giving any errors. If anyone has any idea of how to fix this, help would be greatly appreciated 😅

 

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After trying multiple trouble shooting steps such as disabling windows hello, disabling microsoft vulnerable driver blocklist, memory integrity, and driver signature enforcement (via advanced startup), as well as updating intel management engine drivers, the bios update from 1.04 to 1.06 for the Razer Blade 18 (2024) with RTX 4090 still refuses to do anything. I run the installer as adminstrator and wait for the loading bar to finish, it then automatically restarts my laptop and then when I reboot again to enter bios, the bios still says it is on version 1.04. 

 

Anyone have any ideas of how to resolve this so that I can update the bios? 

I have had some issues in the past that started with audio pops and clicks possibly associated with dpc system latency but seemed to go away when razer synapse 4 wasn’t running. But then these issues expanded into random errors from various programs, games crashing and telling me to update bios, general system instability, occasional blue screening with different errors almost every time, (and closing synapse did nothing to fix it anymore),  etc.

After testing my RAM and my SSDs, doing a clean reinstall of windows, and doing all kinds of troubleshooting and researching for literal weeks I ended up eventually solving the issue by disabling turbo boost, intel speedstep, and hyperthreading in the bios. While this has allowed my system to be stable again it is considerably slower with the processor being heavily limited like this and so I would really like to update the bios if possible to see if it helps at all given that the update seems to possibly have to do with cpu voltage instability and degradation fixes. 

 

Also after researching this particular problem with the bios update on Reddit, I know at least one other person has had this same issue with the update seeming to complete but the bios version being stuck on 1.04. So, given the update came out about a month ago, its possible many more will be impacted by this issue but have not tried to update yet. 

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  • LeDankKnight
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  • April 1, 2026

So... somehow I managed to get the update to work but unfortunately I don't know what fixed it exactly? I started with double checking again that windows was fully updated and even though I just updated it and made sure there were no updates listed under optional updates as well, for some reason there were some updates that it wasn't telling me about that appeared suddenly after rebooting and hitting the check for updates button in the windows settings again several times there was a windows incremental update that suddenly showed up as well as a security update. After installing all the updates and rebooting again and then deleting and redownloading the installer just to try to see if anything would change, I tried again and it worked for some reason. 

 

Not sure if this had any impact on it at all but one other thing I changed was changing my performance mode under razer synapse to balanced rather than turbo. I also turned off my graphics card overclocking from the auto tuning feature in nvidia app. Lastly I double checked that I closed every single program in the system tray leaving only windows explorer open before right-clicking and running the bios updater as administrator, I left the installer open for a few minutes and then I also closed the windows file explorer before clicking the update button. I made sure everything was closed the first few times too so I'm not sure if any of that made a difference or not. It is possible though that I somehow missed something before.

One other thing I heard mentioned on a much older post involving a similar issue that someone had reached out to razer support for was resetting the bios settings to the default settings before updating so that might be something worth trying as well.

 

Apologies for the long confusing solution just wanted to be as detailed as possible in case anything happens to end up helping anyone but I genuinely don't really know what I did that fixed it, I just know I tried some stuff and tried again and eventually it worked.

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