Sadly, however, HP doesn’t even offer an F.03 for download so now I’m downgraded and STILL don’t have a solution. I took the risk and tried it, even though I knew it would be a downgrade from the F.03 I was already running.

UPDATE: I tried downloading other versions of the BIOS and they all do the same thing - EXCEPT for the F.02 updater. What’s the trick to getting this laptop to update its BIOS? I have tried resetting the BIOS to its default settings, cleaning the hard drive, replacing the hard drive, clean-installing Windows 8.1, AND clean-installing Windows 10. I ran through that process but the USB drive isn’t bootable there’s just a couple of folders containing what are theoretically the BIOS update files. The updater utility (InsydeFlash.exe) also claims to have the ability to create a bootable USB drive to flash the BIOS of a corrupted machine. I must also say that if you downloaded the BIOS from a third-party site, we cannot vouch for it. I have never seen a bios update as part of a scheduled maintenance by a hardware manufacturer. Overnight it is still at 6 but upon looking at it, the update is for the HP bios. I told her to call me if it was still at 6 after lunch. The Insyde H2OFFT tool is used by Lenovo to deliver these updates. At first the user complained that her laptop had hung on a windows update and hadn’t moved for an hour. The most important thing is that you do not lose power during the upgrade.Try installing on a b. If you follow these precautionary steps even if one messes things up it can be fixed. I get to the desktop, shut down, and start up again to get into the BIOS, and sure enough it’s still on F.03. Hi all, If you received a pop-up for this update, then its legitimate and you can download it with confidence. So nowadays, its fairly simple to update your BIOS and quite risk free. I click it and the computer restarts - way too quickly for a BIOS update to have been performed. It goes through a “copying” motion then tells me I need to restart, along with a restart button. I have the option of updating the BIOS so I do so. About a minute after running the downloaded EXE, the utility runs. Running it puts a typical HP “SWSetup” folder on the drive with the appropriate bits inside. I downloaded the most current BIOS (F.42rA) available here: You can create this partition by downloading and running the installer on the following link - during the installation, select to create the partition on the Hard Drive. Laptop is currently running BIOS F.03 and Windows 8.1. If you wish to update the bios, I'd suggest creating the HPTOOLS partition as this will allow the bios flash to run in an UEFI environment which is a much safer option than running it in Windows.

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