Need a BIOS for HP Pavillion dv6000

[pwal1951]

Hi. I have a:

HP Pavillion dv6000

GA218UA#ABL

AMD Turion 64x2

Was running F.43 BIOS

Got corrupted so I am in need of a new copy...

Can't seem to find it on HP site.

Thanks

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I can give you the link to the last BIOS update (F.43) HP released for your notebook, but you can't run it in W7.

Info file

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48125.html 

Update file

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48125.exe 

Updating the BIOS in any HP dv6xxx with an AMD processor and running W7 or newer will brick the notebook.

You can only run the BIOS updates in XP or Vista in the dv6000 AMD model series.

I do not know how you can run this file or its contents outside of Windows.

[pwal1951]

Thanks so much for the info.

Is there a bios that will run with Win7 ?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

Unfortunately, there isn't.

Maybe you can call your local PC repair shop and see if they have the tools/programs to extract the actual BIOS files from the exe file I posted and update the BIOS from DOS or outside of the Windows environment.

I'm pretty sure it can be done, but I have no clue how to do it.

[pwal1951]

Thanks again. It's nice to know that someone has solutions for old HPs.

I like to try and keep them out of the garbage dumps.

Keep up the good work.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.

Yes, a decent PC repair shop should have BIOS reprogramming tools and should be able to fix your notebook's BIOS good as new.