BIOS upgrade

[IzNoBo]

You're only offering a Windows compatible .exe file for BIOS upgrades. Is it at all possible to upgrade the BIOS outside of Windows?

[tk_srq]

@IzNoBo,

You can create a BIOS recovery/update usb drive from an update BIOS .exe file and use the key press combination method (pressing Win + B keys) to launch the BIOS update from outside of Windows.

Click this link and go to "3. Manually Recover the BIOS" then "Recover the BIOS Using a USB Recovery Drive" for more info.

HP Notebook PCs - Recovering the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) | HP® Support

It seems that this is an only possible way to update BIOS in a Linux system.

See this thread where Linux folks used the aforementioned method to update BIOS on Linux.

Solved: BIOS update while on linux - HP Support Community - 9428952

[IzNoBo]

I'm afraid the methods described was either not applicable on this laptop (ctrl/B) or required access to a Windows computer (creating a bootable USB drive).

Seems HP hardware for all intents and purposes is Windows only.

[tk_srq]

You are right that HP only supports Windows on your model. But you can still update BIOS on your Linux machine.

If you don't have access to a Windows-based PC to create a BIOS recovery usb drive, you can possibly run Windows in virtual machines in Linux. Here is a tutorial video for how to do it.

Running Windows in Linux: A VirtualBox Guide

This is tedious extra work, but I don't know any other way to create a BIOS update usb drive without using a Windows PC.

Modern HP PCs with Windows 8 and up support the key press combination method (pressing W+B keys + power up) for BIOS recovery/update work, and I'm sure your notebook supports it.