Download new driver files from the BIOS tab on your product’s support page.Your browser won’t be accessible on your primary PC when you’re in the BIOS environment. It’s helpful to keep the manual or guide open on a second device, such as a laptop or smartphone. There may also be a guide on the BIOS tab of the product page. A BIOS or UEFI chapter should explain several ways to “flash” - or update - the BIOS. Once you have the product model, navigate to the manufacturer’s product support page and look for the product manual. Recovery might require a prepared USB stick or CD as well as keyboard activation of a recovery tool built into a prebuilt PC. Follow the instructions and the HP BIOS update program will bootstrap its way at the next boot.Note: Before proceeding further, back up your personal files and research recovery options for your PC and motherboard in the case of BIOS corruption. The update will write to the EFI boot partition in the HP/ directory with it's own BIOS update runtime program as well as actual BIOS. Boot the PE image and flash your BIOS from that image by running the sp*.exe file. Get Hiron's Windows PE and copy the contents of the image to a bootable USB drive. If you can do this then be sure that the EFI partition is formatted vfat (fat16) and is at least 100MB in size. If you're running any Linux distribution (including Ubuntu) then it's convenient to use an EFI partition for the boot loader instead of MBR. You need a EFI partition to do the BIOS upgrade. Maybe that EFI partition is required for BIOS upgrades through local media? As I understand now, the laptop came with an EFI partition with some HP software related to BIOS and firmware. When I installed Ubuntu on the laptop I erased everything on the SSD.

No, I haven't figured out the why the BIOS reports invalid image when attempting to update from local media.īut I have a guess, maybe it could be related to this: P7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,8 CPUs Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU 1.60GHz (806EA),ASM,AES-NI)Įxtracting archive: /tmp/test/sp94780.exeĬharacteristics = Executable 32-bit NoRelocs NoLineNums NoLocalSymsĪ10ad77c7bc6d29aac7fa9e1374f84d1 copied the *.bin file into /boot/efi/EFI/HP/BIOS/New Mkdir cd wget -q mkdir cd 7z e /tmp/test/sp94780.exeħ-Zip 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov :

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