Bios Installer For Windows

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Baldovino Caya

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:12:27 PM8/3/24

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For right now, in the here and now. We have seen a decent success rate getting this updated using Windows. Obviously, like most of you, I am a full-time Linux users. So I have no desire to install Windows to update my BIOS.

Did the EFI method break laptops? cause it worked fine for me and some others it seemed. I dont like sharing the efi files while the official beta got removed, cause who can trust little ol me? if the windows stick method truly is such a problem, why consider a beta bios at all. just wait.

@Matt_Hartley Can you please share some details. What is the exact problem of the EFI updater? Is it the missing ME update? If people used the EFI updater (and updated the ME), will they need to wait for another update to fix something? If yes, what?

This is pretty much the same behavior and solution I observed when updating my personal 1260p (FRANGACP06) from 3.03 to 3.06 last year (WD SN850 back then, more RAM, all USB-C expansion cards). Even was the same ReTimer that failed to update. Although, while I am not 100%, I believe I had a different charger plugged in and on the left side back then.
So it seems very much that the ReTimers updating is what is problematic and nothing has changed with that since the 3.06 update. Only that my own FW already had up-to-date ReTimers, so that was not an issue this time around.

However, those who do not wish to wait can install Windows and run the MSI which has a solid success rate in testing here in with the community and with us. Ideal, no. But it does mean there BIOS are available now, but for efi we need to get some things sorted as there are some configurations that are not playing ball.

For those of you using Linux that are not thrilled with this. Yes, I get it. Fulltime Linux user here. However the ventoy method of creating a Windows installer USB is sound and works.
Install Windows, run the MSI updater, complete the process. Then once you have confirmed the BIOS update, wipe Windows.

Im pretty confident the general recommendation is not to install this update at all since this is just a beta. There are still no updates for the 12th gen laptops as far as the average user is concerned.

might not even browse these community pages, nor be on discord and be unaware of any bios updates. the average computer user is annoyed when a system reboots multiple times and all scary white characters appear and multiple progressbars.

My harddrive crashed. So I bought a new one and windows 10. Upon trying to install Windows 10 I found out my bios had to be updated in order to install Windows 10. So I found an old laptop and tried to create a bios flash USB. When I downloaded and tried to go step by step in the installer and it closes. A black window pops up for not even a second that reads "The parameter is incorrect. The system cannot find the path specified. The system cannot find the drive specified. The system cannot find file specified. AMI firmware update utility. V 2.38_hp_v04_b04" then it disappears and I'm left with nothing.. what do I need to do to make this installer work??

"Open a "run-as-administrator" command-line" Is this something I can do without Windows installed? Because I thought it was a windows program. Right now I have a new harddrive in the computer without an OS on it.

If so, remove the disk-drive from that computer, connect it to your motherboard, disconnect from the Internet, and boot from the disk-drive. Do the BIOS update. Shutdown. Return the disk-drive to its "home" computer.

When I tried to install Windows 10 it wouldn't work. So I called Microsoft and they tried a few things, then they discovered my bios was "expired" That lead me to the HP website for the bios update, and then on to here.

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How would I go about installing windows 7? It was preloaded on the computer when i bought it. Honestly if i could have just bought and installed windows 7 i would have. I'm not a huge fan of windows 10. In any case, is it impossible to install the updated bios on my computer without an os installed?

Well this might sound silly. I put dual boot (original windows and Bazzite) on my Legion go with 2TB SSD. Then I went in to update the machine in Legion Space on windows. It said to update bios it needed a reboot. Then it rebooted and showed me the warning for not to power off. It also said there will be 2 min of black screen after the update. I waited for the update to finish, but nothing happened after 2 min. Complete black screen.

Same thing happened to me last night. Updated BIOS through Legion Space and it went to black screen. it took me a couple hours but here's how I did it. I downloaded a different BIOS from March, then hooked the Go up via external display. Navigated the BIOS menu with FPS mode and controllers connected. It's a pain but I was able to get into BIOS and enable the BIOS Flashback. Then I pushed the new BIOS file through and it worked. Hardest part was getting the BIOS menu to work with FPS mode. I tried external mouse/keyboard with no success. FPS mode was the only way.

I would always let it sit longer. It may say 1-2 minutes but it could take 5-10 or 30. I always give myself at least 30 minutes before I think about forcing it off. You could try rolling back the bios if you have it enabled and reinstall.

2. Plugged in the external monitor, Flash the most recent Bios downloaded from Lenovo. Unplug Monitor. Reboot. Came back after lunch. The machine fell asleep. Can not see anything on the screen. Power off by long press the button. Then reboot. Still black screen.

3. Plugged in the external monitor. Go to Legion Space changed the thermal profile from custom(purple power button color) to performance(red power button color). Unplug monitor. Power on and see Legion logo on the screen!

I've read that elsewhere too, that leaving it sit for long enough fixes it. What I would suggest is NOT updating through Legion Space. I haven't had any luck updating the AMD drivers with it and when trying to update the BIOS it failed to black screen. I let it sit plenty long enough during the update...at least 20 minutes without touching it. Still failed. I think Legion Space needs some work.

Some times as Adam B already wrote before the black screen can take even longer then 20 Minutes. I would leave it on performance or 30 Watt custom TDP for the updates too, as I experienced it to be faster and didn't have any problems with it. Also I would leave it plugged in for the whole procedure.

Have my first issue with my very first build after using computers and remembering the days before the interweb. I intended to be ambitious and to maybe over build with some headroom for future upgrades. Whatever I own I do try to ensure I get the best out of it and to that end I am bumping against installing Win10 after Raid 0 the two drives within the Bios. I have gone through the videos of trying to load bottom drivers then raid config but i still get get the windows setup to see them as raided drives. I need a detailed idiots guide rather than a detailed expert guide if that makes sense. Any help with videos or pdf's......at 43 I am feel it might be like teaching someone to use a spoon. Will continue my own searching and googling as there must be something I am missing.

3.Enter the Raidxpert2 menu in BIOS, you need to initialise (writes some data to the drives to prepare them for Raid) all hard drives that will be used for Raid. This option will be in the Raidxpert2 menu, so check all options.

I try raid 0. In bios I'm creating raid, and at first glance everything is fine (I can add screenshots from the BIOS). Then I made a bootable USB flash drive and added drivers there. During installation, I add 3 drivers sequentially from the DD folder, they are installed, but still two nvme disks are displayed.

Strange thing. tried again from the beginning. In the BIOS, I left SATA in AHCI mode (before that stood in raid), and nvme as raid. I got to the driver installation and this time I could not install anything from the nvme_did folder, the list was empty, like "incompatible with my equipment". But from the nvme_cc folder (for a different processor) - success, and one disk appeared! While everything seems to be established and working, I observe.

I used the NVMe_DID drivers, browsing to and then installing rcBootom, RCRaid, and RCfg in that order. It made no difference - after installing all three drivers and doing a refresh, the Windows installer still sees two separate NVM drives and can't install.