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‎02-13-2017 07:33 PM - edited ‎02-13-2017 07:49 PM

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Product: hp nc8430
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

Basically ive been having a few problems with my machine. one was having vt enabled for android emulation so i went ahead and downloaded and installed a the latest bios and now my system has slowed to insanely slow speeds rendering it useless and always reading from the hdd. i was wondering if there was a way i could get an older bios for this machine...

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‎02-13-2017 08:22 PM

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Hi:

 

Here is the revision history of previous BIOS files.  I posted the FreeDOS ones because if you are running W10, I would not recommend you use the Windows based flash since it was written to work on XP and Vista.

 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=1839197&swItemId=ob_63514_1&swEnvOid=1093...

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‎02-13-2017 08:22 PM

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Hi:

 

Here is the revision history of previous BIOS files.  I posted the FreeDOS ones because if you are running W10, I would not recommend you use the Windows based flash since it was written to work on XP and Vista.

 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=1839197&swItemId=ob_63514_1&swEnvOid=1093...

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‎02-13-2017 10:35 PM

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i have another hdd that has windows 7 unregestered for testing would that be sufficient in windows vista compatibility?

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‎02-14-2017 06:45 AM

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I wouldn't do it, but that is up to you.

 

Just know that there is probably at least a 75% chance you will permanently wreck your notebook if you do.

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