Updated graphics card in H8-1020

[BtheC]

I saw the other posts were locked on this question so here is a new post to offer you the solution you have been waiting for.

There is indeed a bios patch that will work perfectly on this board.

The link is here.

I tried the trick on Youtube linked in another post and it worked using another card as well as the built in onboard video card first and it worked but I was dreading having to go through all that stuff every time it rebooted so I hunted around some more and found this.

https://archive.org/details/gpu-fix-for-hp-ipisb-ch2-modified-bios-image

I tried it and it worked.

I didn't need to do anything special either.

Just make a dos window and navigate to the directory where you unzipped the image and run the batch file or better yet read the instructions.

This will work and I am now purring along using much less power and $$$ on a 1050TI instead of the 280x that required external power.

Now if they can only edit the bios so we can use more memory than 8 gig and something to fool Windows 11 so we can keep using these great machines.

I've upgraded other things as well on mine.

An internal LG bluray drive.

A 1 TB SDD boot drive.

A 4 port USB 3 addon card in a pcie x1 slot.

A 2TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD in another pcie x1 slot.

Great, quality built machines, seems a shame not to use them.

 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

If you are interested in installing W11 on your PC as is, you can read this discussion for how I upgraded several HP and Dell notebook and desktop PC's that did not meet the W11 hardware requirements to W11 22H2.

You have to use the version of the Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in the discussion (v3.18).

Re: Issues upgrading to windows 11 - HP Support Community - 8517912

If the in-place upgrade fails, you should be able to clean install W11 using the bootable W11 installation flash drive you made with Rufus.

The only change you need to make is to set the rufus utility's partition scheme to MBR if your PC does not have a UEFI BIOS (which I don't believe it does).