Bios Update for Intel 11th Gen for HP 290 G4 Microtower PC

[GhunterX21]

Hi all,

Hopefully you can help with this.

I have a HP 290 G4 Microtower PC with Intel 10th Gen CPU. I wanted to do an update to the machine, new mem, network and CPU, I bought an Intel 11th Gen Core i9 11900K as they both use the same socket, but it seems the motherboard needs a BIOS update to get it working, other companies provided the updates but not HP from what I can see. I've updated to F.44 and still doesn't work.

Does anyone know if HP have released one that I'm missing, I'm hoping so as it's a massive waste and if this is the case, I'll need to replace the motherboard instead, I don't want to do that if I don't need to.

Any advise would be so helpful. Thanks all

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

According to the HP Quickspecs, the PC only supports up to the Intel 10th gen core processors.

There wouldn't be a BIOS update that adds support for newer processors.

HP 290 G4 Microtower PC

When you read the release notes for the current and previous BIOS updates, none of them added support for new processors.

[GhunterX21]

Thank you for your quick reply.

Very sad HP enjoys e-waste. Lesson learned, won't be buying HP again.

Thanks for your time.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.