There was a new UEFI update for the laptop released a few days ago. Windows install only. So after going to the trouble of installing Windows 10 to an external USB drive to boot off of and run the update (I really didn't feel like repartitioning the drive or having to image and restore it) that actualy worked to do the update.
Re: EFI updates
But it's still 0x74 microcode. (facepalm)