Elitebook 8460P Windows 10 BIOS update

[lankyspam]

I am the proud owner of an Elitebook 8460p, and have enjoyed upgrading it as much as I can recently.  I've got 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD and would very much like to upgrade my CPU to an i7-2860QM, which I can see in the Maintenance and Service Guide is compatible.

The internet is telling me that before I upgrade the CPU, I should make sure I have the latest BIOS available.  I have BIOS ver. F.08 26 August 2011 currently so thought this could do with updating.

Going onto the HP website I can see that updates are only available up to Windows 8.  I have Windows 10.  Selecting Windows 8 anyway, I can see that BIOS ver. F.67 28 February 2018 is the most recent update available.

Am I able to download this BIOS update compatible with Windows 8 even though I am using Windows 10?  This is for the purpose of upgrading my CPU, but I am told that having the latest BIOS is a good thing anyway.

Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

According to the latest BIOS update on the support page, there is an option to update the BIOS outside of Windows:

HP EliteBook 8460p Notebook PC Software and Driver Downloads | HP® Support

- Create a bootable USB Key to update the system BIOS.

Otherwise, you would have to take your chances and update the BIOS using the W8.1 BIOS update on W10 and hope it works.

[lankyspam]

Thanks Paul!

In the end I went ahead and took the risk, so just downloaded and installed from Windows.  Everything went smoothly, but thank you all the same.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome. 

That's great news. 

I've never had a problem doing something like that in the past either, but I don't like recommending that option as a first choice, because the first person I suggest that to will probaly brick their PC and I would feel pretty bad about that.