Pavilion dv6500 BIOS upgrade

[Stemmo21]

Hi all,

I own a HP Pavilion DV6500 (dv6650el) which I want to upgrade with 4GB.

More specifically:

Product: HP Pavillion dv6500

s/n: CNF7426WX8 (not recognized by hp's search engine!)

p/n:  KA032EA#ABZ

service tag: dv6650el

Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2

Please, can someone point me any link to update BIOS (best under Debian)?

Thanks a lot, regards

[Rita_R2]

Hi, @Stemmo21, Welcome to the HP Support.

I will be more than happy to help you. while I am an HP employee, the views expressed here are my own and may not necessarily reflect the views of HP. By sharing relevant video links, I aim to provide clear, practical guidance in an easy-to-follow format. These tailored video resources are designed to address queries more effectively and enhance understanding. I hope you find them helpful as well.

Here is the link which will help to resolve the issue: 

Update Your HP Computer BIOS from Windows | HP Computers | HP Support

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[Stemmo21]

The generic video is not enough. The PC is rather old.

As mentioned, the code is not accepted as valid, so I don't get any list of files of driver or BIOS!

[tk_srq]

@Stemmo21,

DV6500 series models originally came with Windows Vista, and BIOS updates are required to be perform from within Vista. 

If your model is running Linux distro, you can't update the BIOS unfortunately.

See page 3 of the service manual which indicates that dv6500 series comes with two memory slots supporting max 4 GB (2x2 GB) DDR2-667 memory.

c01120535.pdf

[Stemmo21]

Thanks for reply,

please can you point me anyway to the BIOS files?

I can temporarely switch to Windows ..

[Paul_Tikkanen]

@Stemmo21 

Since your notebook has an AMD processor, in order to update the BIOS. you must install either Windows Vista (which the PC came with from HP), or Windows XP.

If you install Windows 7 or newer and try to update the BIOS, there is a 100% BIOS failure rate rendering the motherboard irreparable.

Since Tk_srq answered first, I will defer to him to provide the last BIOS update (F.34) HP released for the dv6500s with AMD processors.

[tk_srq · Accepted solution]

You can download the BIOS file F.34 from this link.

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp52001-52500/sp52477.exe

Readme file for F.34:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp52001-52500/sp52477.html