Can I update the BIOS of this Pavilion P6-2271eo?

[DaVuDp6]

Will try when I'll get to the village this weekend!

Thanks a lot! Will anounce after I'll try

[TheOldMan]

Very good.  I will await the next posting.

[DaVuDp6]

Hello. I've come home and went into the BIOS setting doing like you said (ESC till that Pop-Up menu appears and get into BIOS settign by pressing F10) and I went to Security Option or something like that and went down to Secure Boot options (or something like that). It gave me a warning that I should have at least Windows 8 and a supported version. I pressed F10 and took into another menu with legacy boot and secure boot; The fact is that I didn't change it yet, cause I'm not ready maybe (yet)? I don't know, I feel pretty scared after that BIOS incident and after some research on UEFI boot; Like I saw some saying that It boots up really slow, or need to go back to Legacy to upgrade the GPU, or my GPU, the GT630, won't support UEFI boot (maybe it will work with the Intergrated Graphics), or maybe am scared of having (again) problems with the motherboard. The thing is that I checked and I 100% have the option for Secure Boot, but I'm just a bit concerned, assuming that I had some other problems with other computer's BIOS years before. Will wait a reply and will research and maybe then I will make the change and hope the Motherboard will boot up prefectly. If it wasn't for that endless restart maybe I would have more trust in me and in this HP 🙂

[DaVuDp6]

Also another thing, in System Information it says Secure Boot is unsupported; Here is a screenshot with it

[TheOldMan]

According to that screen it indicates the new BIOS is present - for one the new GPU will work on that version.

Make the Windows 10 media download from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

With a working PC, scroll down to the "Using the tool to create installation media"
and then follow the directions. You can make either the DVD or USB

Get a different hard drive to connect after disconnecting the present hard drive  and set the BIOS to "Secure Boot" and then boot to the new media and install Windows 10.  Now would be a good time to install the new graphics card, too.

Then you can check everything out to reassure it is good.

Then your old setup will still be on the old drive and not changed.

That way if you are not satisfied, put it back the way it was.

[DaVuDp6]

Hello. At this moment, I have a 1TB Seagate HDD and also bought an ADATA SU650 SSD after I had some problems with the HDD (It's still in Warning S.M.A.R.T Status), so maybe I'll take out the SSD I have now and put it into another Laptop from Asus. One thing, will the (possible) new SSD be okay cooperating with the HDD? (I have some nostalgic stuff on this one since I didn't power it up since 2021, now using it in the weekend when I come back to village from the city). Also, how would the ''old'' SSD work in another machine without the stuff from HDD?

I'll see what I'll do with it, also without spending a lot of money (I don't want to spend more than 120$ for this rig) and also keep some stuff from there.

I will let you know when I'll do something about it! Thank you!

Lucky to meet you and reply to every comment on this post, you really are a helpful person ! 😄

[TheOldMan]

If you are planning the experiment/test I posted about, I would leave the HDD out of the system(disconnected) and just use another SSD or conventional hard drive for the test.  Since the 1TB Seagate is in S.M.A.R.T warning, I would leave it alone for now because that means it is about to fail.  Saving data that you want from that drive can be accomplished later.  The new SSD will be Fine, then  after everything is working to your satisfaction, the old HDD can be introduced to the working system as a data drive.

The "old" SSD can be used as a data drive in another system but not as a boot drive.

I hope you can end up with the system that pleases you.