System BIOS update that not requested

[Ellep39]

Every few weeks my laptop will crash and start doing a system bios update. It will repeat it several times in a loop and eventually does stop and reload. Do I have some sort of virus? I am nervous that at some point it will fail to restart normally. I have not at any point requested this update and not sure why it is happening. Help please! Thank you 

[WAWood]

@Ellep39 

Used to be that BIOS updates on HP laptops were done only from HP downloads and you were provided a choice as to whether or not to do those.

But more recently, with newer laptops, Microsoft has also been pushing out BIOS updates -- and like with Windows Updates, those are not so reliable and can crash the laptop.  If these are what is happening, you're in a bad situation because, unlike with older versions of Windows, you can't prevent the installation of specific updates.

What I would suggest does not prevent these but if you can do this, it would provide you a tool to use to restore a working PC if the laptop gets forced into a BIOS update: Go into the BIOS/UEFI settings, look for BIOS/Firmware update, and see if it provides the feature for backing off the existing BIOS to a USB stick.  If it does, then do that -- and set that aside.