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Hi everyone!

 

I really have a HP laptop with these specs:

Product Name: HP Pavilion dv6-6093ex

 

Product Number : LM610EA#A2N

 BIOS:

Rev 3.5

Version of BIOS is: F.05.

Vendor of BIOS is: Insyde

 

Since I could know that my BIOS is not UEFI because I couldn't  navigate the menus with a mouse and I only nagivate with just the keyboard

 

 I have updated my BIOS from F.05 into F.1B by using HP Notebook System BIOS Update (Intel Processors) (sp55068) F.1B hoping to let BIOS be UEFI.

 

But it was still not UEFI.

 

Thus, could you help me with any newer update of BIOS which can let BIOS be UEFI.

 

 

 

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UEFI is not exactly the same as BIOS. UEFI actually replaces BIOS and is a more advanced system. In any event you need to install UEFI. Go to this link:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5093...

 

and install both the "Diagnostic" packages. After that, you should have a UEFI environment by pressing the F2 key as you boot up.

 

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@Huffer wrote:

UEFI is not exactly the same as BIOS. UEFI actually replaces BIOS and is a more advanced system. In any event you need to install UEFI. Go to this link:

 

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5093...

 

and install both the "Diagnostic" packages. After that, you should have a UEFI environment by pressing the F2 key as you boot up.

 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 


Thanks a lot,

 First:

The  a UEFI environment  is a very best of design which sounds as though it is a bridge between the OS and BIOS.
But I noticed that the UEFI environment should be created/install before the OS gets corrupt(not loading well) because the UEFI will be installed via OS.
However,  BIOS will be forever regardless of whether there is an OS or not.

 

Besides,  when I installed a BIOS update while  the UEFI environment is installed,  I found that the computer restarted automatically into the UEFI environment to complete installing the update of BIOS, (I complete the update while on UEFI environment). However, when I installed a BIOS update while the UEFI isn't installed, I found that the BIOS was running on Windows environment  without loading into UEFI environment. Then, I have asked to restart my system to complete the update of BOIS.

 

Also, if UEFI  had been installed before I would have been facing  a problem loading  OS, then I would have been able to boot my computer into UEFI enviroment to check the Memory, Hard disk, and so on.

 

But I would say that UEFI will never help me to fix Windows system boot problems, wouldn't it? IF so, then what benefit are there from loading into UEFI enviroment if an OS got corrupted.(NOT loading well).

 

Finally:  IF you have a look at this details of dignositc utility, you'll find out there are two UEFI dignostics, thus which one should I install.

 

Diagnostic
 (‏1)
 
 
HP System Diagnostics UEFI 2011-03-24 , Version3.7.0.0, 1.52M
 
(‏Previous versions available)‏HP System Diagnostics is a UEFI based hardware diagnostics used to validate if a system is functional enough to startup the operating system. The diagnostics are accessed during startup by pressing F2 ...
 
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Diagnostic
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HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Support Environment 2011-09-15 , Version4.1.0.0, 2.07M
 
This package provides the HP Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Support Environment for the supported notebook models and operating systems. HP UEFI Support Environment provides UEFI based ...
 
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