
After clicking the BIOS category, if the BIOS version available is newer than you currently have, then click on the Download button. If not, then the original BIOS version is the only BIOS version available for your model In the result list below, click on (+) sign beside the BIOS category to expand it if you can see one. Click under the “Operating systems in English:” and select the operating system you noted down earlier. The support page for your model will open. In the search results, click on the model that exactly matches yours. Below “ Enter my HP model number”, type your system’s model name you noted earlier, and press Enter. You can try the following to update Bios through Windows. Note all of this, you’ll need it in further steps. Value against “System Mode” will be your exact system model. Value against System type will be its bitness. Value against OS will be your Operating system. The value against it will be your BIOS version. In the larger right pane, locate BIOS Version/Date. A System Information window will open. In the window, make sure System Summary is selected in the left pane. Hold the Windows key + R. In the run window, type msinfo32 and press Enter. To update your BIOS on your HP computer/laptop, you will first have to check which version of BIOS is currently running on your system. So you’ll have to be very specific while following this guide.įirst, you’ll have to know the version of the current BIOS installed on your system. But installing a wrong update or the wrong version can leave your system in an unusable way. Updates for BIOS may fix or enhance features and aspects of your system’s performance.
When a computer boots up, it looks in the chip for BIOS for instructions on where to find the operating system and among many other things, BIOS also further facilitates communication between the operating system and the hardware. It’s a set of code that resides on a chip on your system’s motherboard. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System.