Question about HP BIOS update Windows 11

[jjf5]

I recently upgraded my Pavilion 15t-cs200 to Windows 11. All is working fine and well, no issues. Today, I wanted to update the BIOS. However, the most recent BIOS I am going to update to was released on September 27, 2021. Because Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021, I want to know if the HP BIOS update I downloaded will work fine with Windows 11, even though it was made when Windows 10 was still the latest Windows operating system.

There is no issue with my BIOS, this is just a general question.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Generally, it is not a good idea to update the BIOS when running an unsupported operating system.

I have a HP 15-ee047nr notebook with an AMD Ryzen processor, running on W11, and I noticed that there was a BIOS update dated Aug 30, 2021, that was only supported to be run on W10.

I disregarded my own advice and ran the update.  I was feeling lucky.

Fortunately, the notebook did not get bricked, and works fine.

So...I have proven that it can be done on my notebook, but do you feel lucky?

I would not chance it if everything is working fine.

I have several spare notebook and desktop PC's so if for some reason I wrecked my notebook, I had others.

One other thing is your BIOS update and mine have an option to create a bootable BIOS recovery drive just in case there is a problem.

I don't know how well it works, but at least one exists.

[jjf5]

Because Windows 10 and 11 pretty much run on the same engine, I would hope that it works for me too. However, I wont risk it and will end up using the USB method. 

Another question I have (not related to this) is that is it normal for HP BIOS update to do a recovery immediately after the update when you are updating several versions ahead?

[jjf5]

Reply to above message.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I don't understand your question.

I have updated the BIOS's on many HP and Dell desktop and notebook PC's and only had to run the update once, and it succeeded.

I never had a PC go into BIOS recovery mode after an update--even skipping versions.

There is one model HP business desktop that I know of where you can't update from an old version to the newest one unless you first install an intermediate version, and you just get an error that won't let you update the BIOS.

Then you come here and ask for help.  😊

[jjf5]

HP said that such cases might happen on their documentation, so I would like to know if this is normal. That happened to me once, but everything succeeded.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Never had a problem.

One and done.

[jjf5]

One last question, is it true that updating BIOS without the HP support assistant will make all HP bios updates succeed most cases? (assuming the hp bios update released is stable and working)

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I'll tell you...I have never, ever used the HPSA to update the BIOS.

When I see it has reported a BIOS update, I close out of the HPSA, go to the support page and manually download and run the BIOS update myself.

There are many tales of woe on this forum from folks that let the HPSA update the BIOS automatically (some didn't even know it happened), and ended up with a bricked PC.

I have my HPSA to only notify me of updates, never to download and install them automatically.

Drivers, I don't care if the HPSA notifies me and I go ahead and let it install them, but a BIOS update is a whole different story.

[jjf5]

Update: I attempted an HP BIOS update on a HP Windows 11 computer and it ran perfectly, 0 issues.