Does anyone know how to rollback a firmware update for the MBP?
Apple did a terrible job on the EFI firmware 1.4 for the MBP and I want to get back to the 1.3 Firmware. Is it possible?
The 1.4 firmware messes with the Windows XP/Vista BootCamp installation: the screen is with”blue fuzz" and it happens with all MBP.
Any help would be much appreciated.
In nearly every other major 10.X release, the first bugfix update came 2 weeks after it ended up in consumer hands. I'd venture to wager Leopard will be no different.
you still don't seem to get it....It's not a problem with Leopard, it's a problem with EFI and it's been around longer than two weeks. I was hoping Leopard would be a fix but it's not and a fix two weeks from now will be a week too late for my dilemma. Looks like I'm renting PC's. Well, at least we'll have one mac running keynote. 😉
When I complain about this problem, Apple said that won’t support it because BootCamp was a beta and unsupported version.
I bought Leopard (I didn’t want or need it), just to have BootCamp support.
I install Leopard and I did a fresh install of Windows Vista (and Windows XP later), then install the new BootCamp drivers that came in the Leopard install DVD and the problem remains. It happens also during Windows install and I knew that to solve this Apple must release a new EFI firmware update.
Anyway, I just bought Leopard to have access to Apple support. I went to Apple Support Center here in Portugal, I explain the problem, I showed the problem during the Windows Install and they didn’t care about it. They just install the drivers twice and after that they said that this was Microsoft Windows problem and I should contact Microsoft to solve it…
This behaviour is unbelievable from Apple.
I’ll never buy Apple anymore and I’ll recommend others to do the same.
At this point I have a 2500 $ useless machine.
Apple manages to solve the problem replacing the LCD Display.
I call again to the Apple Care Phone number for Portugal and I spend an hour talking to a technician explaining the problem. After a long debate, I win by exhaustion and he provide an Apple Care code to replace my LCD and he call to the local store telling then to repair my MBP.
2 days later the local store calls to pick up the MBP with a new LCD.
So, my advice is to call Apple Care and report this thread to then. Expect an arguing fight, but be more patient that the technician… And ask for the 2nd level technician, because I have doubts that the 1st level can actually help… They don’t have decision power.
Fact 1: Apple releases a flaw EFI firmware update that makes any other OS unusable than the OSX. That update has no rollback option.
Fact 2: Apple obliges the consumer to buy the Leopard, just to have the possibility to call for the support (I was lucky that in the meantime Apple releases a new OS with Bootcamp support, otherwise they didn’t care about this problem).
Fact 3: After 2 months, Apple didn’t provide a new EFI firmware update to solve the problem (actually, for Apple there is no problem, the MBP works just fine in OS X).
Fact 4: 2 months later Apple solves the problem, after the consumer convinces the support that a LCD replace would solve the problem (In my mind, I think that I was very, very lucky that the technician was in a happy day…)
