Newer BIOS available? Need to enable AHCI

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I have a HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC with BIOS Version F.02 and this version does not support AHCI. I need a BIOS version that supports AHCI because I purchased a Crucial MX500 1TB SSD and I cannot get the dv6 to recognize the drive. HP Support Assistant application says there are no BIOS updates available... there *has* to be a BIOS version available dated later than 10/3/2011... even if there are no 'officially supported' BIOS versions available. This is a very capable system and I'd hate to have it be made obsolete by it's iniability to support a modern hard drive...

If there is no BIOS update solution available, would appreciate any tips or suggestions for getting the SSD I purchased installed with my current system specifications.

Full system specifications for my dv6 are found below:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.17763 Build 17763
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU QJ916AV#ABA
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz, 2201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.02, 10/3/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 16.49
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
BaseBoard Product 17FB
BaseBoard Version 10.31
Platform Role Mobile
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.17763.194"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.95 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.96 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 11.6 GB
Page File Space 8.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: TPM is not usable, PCR7 binding is not supported, Hardware Security Test Interface failed and device is not InstantGo, Un-allowed DMA capable bus/device(s) detected, Disabled by policy, TPM is not usable
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware No
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes