BIOS update (F.1A)

[abhimanyuchawla]

Hello

I have a HP dv7 6195us new laptop. I have Win7 Ultimate multiboot with Win7 Home premium, Ubuntu and Fedora.

I intend to update my BIOS to the latest one (F.1A) on the support website since it adds BIOS support for switchable graphics. I'm aware of the consequences of unsuccessful BIOS update, so I'm a bit afraid to do it. I need to know if the multi-boot setup is going to pose any problems? I had also wiped out the recovery partition and the HP Tools partition while the multi-boot process and I no longer have the access to the HP in-built BIOS update feature.

Can somebody help me in getting the BIOS update done?

[DavidPK · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Did you create your set of Recovery DVDs?

The reason I'm asking is because although it sounds like a lot of hassle, the safest way to update your bios would be to return the notebook to factory conditions and then update the bios as the flash will then be performed outside of Windows when you restart which is about as safe as you're going to get.

Regards,

DP-K

[abhimanyuchawla]

Thanks! I was thinking the same.. There was no option to create recovery disks, I guess HP has disabled that for new systems, so I was not able to create recovery disks. Anyways I'll be ordering that from HP store. Thanks again for your reply!

[DavidPK]

Hi,

You're welcome

All the best,

DP-K

[v116v]

This bios have support for Raid hdd?

thank´s very much.