Unlock Advanced BIOS Settings Inside F40

[ClintonSan]

Is there a secret or otherwise hidden menu in BIOS for the HP 15-DB0066WM Notebook?

I only have 5 options I can change, other than the Boot Menu where I can change Secure Boot Order or Legacy Boot Order, as well as...

Secure Boot (Enable or Disable),

Legacy Boot (Enable or Disable),

CD-ROM Boot (Enable or Disable),

USB Boot (Enable or Disable) and finally,

Network Boot (IPv4, IPv6, or IPv4 & IPv6)

Now outside of said Boot Menu, I can view system logs, but alas when I hit enter it only shows me a list of logs by log ID number, no information other than the Log number are viewable. I can also change TPM settings and revert, revert or load previous BIOS settings, enable or disable virtual OS support, battery time remaining, fan always on.

As far as any other settings that you'd typically find in BIOS, I have nothing else ... is this normal for the latest Insyde F.40 BIOS? Or, as I've seen on various forums and YouTube channels, is there a way to load Advanced Settings by using a pre-BIOS or pre-BOOT or otherwise hidden shortcut/key-combo??

Thanks ahead of time to anyone who has advice!

Clinton

[Irfan_06]

Hi @ClintonSan,

Welcome to the HP Support Community.

Thank you for posting your query, I will be glad to assist you.

I see that you are looking for information related to BIOS.

Kindly refer to the steps on this link and let me know if that fixes the issue.

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Irwin6

HP Support

[ClintonSan]

No. While your answer was comprehensive and extensive, it does not apply to the (possibly hidden) Advanced Settings options, if there are any. Thank you for trying to help, all the same. If there's hidden Advanced Settings, then it's likely you'd be aware of such a thing. I'll keep researching as well and post an update should I find a conclusive answer, as this seems to be widely discussed and debated. Many people claim that the Advanced Settings only shows when the user performs a certain key-combination, typically described as holding shift and hitting ESC multiple times, or F9 multiple times, before hitting F10 and then the supposed Advanced Settings just appears out of nowhere. If I find this is true, however, and no HP representative will even discuss the matter let alone provide support or any relative information WITHOUT me paying out of pocket first for a Support option (for a simple question regarding a laptop that is at least 4 years old, then it's the last straw with HP and having any sort of information withheld for payment to be admitted will be the subject of a lengthily complaint with non-HP Consumer Protections. The other night I had upgraded to Windows 11 and needed my drivers, which I normally obtain from HPs website. However this particular day those drivers wouldn't show. I would select my device and then my OS and then be taken to a page that said there are no drivers for the device model I provided. I've obtained these drivers many times over before without incident so I called HP to ask if the drivers were no longer available or archived due to the age of the laptop. I was given one option/answer...pay up and we will discuss your question but no comment, advice, input or support of any kind was given. This led me to believe the drivers were no longer provided; luckily AMD knows how to run a corporation and support tier so I just skipped the middle man aka HP and went straight to AMD for not only the chipset and video drivers but also an AMD application that came with the package that enabled me to view and modify graphics options that i NEVER HAD ANY IDEA EXISTED BEFORE, thanks to HP extracting the drivers into their own package. My games run better than ever! 

Needless to say I refused to give any money and the representative wouldn't help or even just tell me if the drivers would ever be available again. THANKFULLY, I was absolutely right to refuse because the very next evening I checked again and what do you know, the drivers were there again; they had simply been updated. HP wouldn't even open a support article or discuss or even hypothesize an answer, all they wanted was CREDIT CARD CREDIT CARD CREDIT CARD. You'd think I called a scammer in India...and in many ways I did...call a scammer that is-they just also happened to be the person I reached when calling HPs Support number listed on their website...maybe they're not in India but scammer all the same. 

I'd rather hear "I'm sorry, I don't have that answer," than be led to believe the answer will only be given if I give up those 16-digits.

[ClintonSan]

It is unlawful to hold this information in private the way HP does.

I was finally able to access advanced settings after hours of t/s, if you have a 15-series laptop, especially the 15-af/15-db00xx, (may work for others, haven't tried) here's what HP is crookedly and DISGUSTINGLY TRYING TO KEEP FROM YOU,

(This is what I did exactly how I did it)

Turn laptop off.

Turn it back on and go into BIOS by simply pressing F10.

Power off by pressing and releasing power button.

Within a couple of seconds, simply press and release the power button once more, and then press and release F9 (Boot Menu).

At the Boot Menu now, hold left-CTRL while you press F1 once, and release both keys.

Now simply press F10 once again to go back into BIOS (you should still be at the Boot Menu)

After 4 years of owning my device and using various patches and programmers of my own, I suddenly see an  Advanced Settings tab AS WELL AS a new Power tab, next to the last tab, which includes such items as:

Boot Configuration

Peripheral Configuration

SATA Configuration 

USB Configuration 

Chipset Configuration

ACPI

CPU

Connectivity

Power and Performance

Memory Configuration

System Agent (SA) Configuration

Thermal Configuration

Platform Configuration...

And more.