BIOS upgrade requested when launching WOW

A white warning box appears when I hit play in Battle.net telling me that I need to update my BIOS. This just started yesterday 1/10/25 after 5PM CST. Was not displayed earlier that day. No update was requested nor warning that an upgrade to WOW or its launcher appeared. Wondering what is going on as the conditions it states for needing the update are not present. The computer it is complaining about is about 1 year old.

I get the same thing. I came here looking for explanations of why this is popping up and realized that a 20-year-old game wants me to update to the most recent BIOS while still running 2009 problems and 2010 graphics.

Bluey, please let us know why this new pop-up is happening without making notes available to the public.

Because it’s not a Blizzard problem and it’s not Blizzard’s responsibility to explain the issue with 13th/14th gen Intel processors. They’re just recommending that you update your BIOS. There’s plenty of reading material online discussing the instability problems with those CPUs.

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