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‎01-04-2015 05:04 AM

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Product: Pavilion g6 C6S45EA
Operating System: Windows 8.1

Does BIOS need upgrade after installing Windows  8.1?

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‎01-04-2015 12:36 PM

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OK I am trying as hard as I can to make myself understood. F.26 is the newest, top of the line BIOS for your machine. There is nothing else you could install to do any further upgrade. So, to be explicit, there is no upgrade of the BIOS you need after installing Windows 8.1.

 

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‎01-04-2015 06:10 AM

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Do you have F.26 or are you asking if you should install it? HP highly recommends F.26 if you do not already have it.

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‎01-04-2015 06:43 AM

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Yes, I already have F.26

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‎01-04-2015 10:24 AM

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That is the newest BIOS anyway

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‎01-04-2015 11:54 AM

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Many thanks for the quick response

 

My question is " is there an update to F.26 required having installed windows 8.1"

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‎01-04-2015 12:36 PM

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OK I am trying as hard as I can to make myself understood. F.26 is the newest, top of the line BIOS for your machine. There is nothing else you could install to do any further upgrade. So, to be explicit, there is no upgrade of the BIOS you need after installing Windows 8.1.

 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

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‎10-03-2017 11:14 AM

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It may be that the question stemmed from a recent win 10 update that stopped the computer booting. Comes up with the eventual message 'inaccessable boot device' - just like mine, and he has been steered towards the bios and is wondering if this latest BIOS F26 is the cause???

Many moons ago, some weeks after upgrading to win 10 from 8.1 (which it says in the setup utility it says was the factory installed OS ), a win 10 update stopped this 360 from closing down properly. The fan and hard drive kept running after everything else had shut down.

I was steered to the item in the update and with an on line repair tool, turned that part of the update back to a previous item. Then added it to a list of invisible kernels to future updates to avoid.

However realising that other future updates may be designed to interact with that kernel, I turned off updates.

Windows whinged... a lot.

Eventually they turned it on when I wasn't looking the other morning, and I walked in to find it saying it wanted to reboot after having done a (huge) win 10 update.

Guess what - it won't reboot at all.

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‎10-03-2017 11:18 AM

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Perhaps the question should be is F.26 too new for the rest of the system,and should it be turned back to a previous one....

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