Now you will find the latest firmware for your system under BIOS-System Firmware. Click on the link Choose a different OS and select any Windows 10 version. On the HP downloads page, you will probably get a mssage that it was unable to find drivers for your product. If you don’t know the exact model of your system, use this command (as root): # /usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep 'Product Name' The first hit will probably bring you to the right page, in my case:

Use your favourite web search engine and search for the model name and add the word downloads to it, for example: HP Elitebook 845 G8 downloads. Here I will explain how I managed to update my Elitebook 845 G8, but this should work for most recent HP laptops and desktops.įirst you need to download the firmware update for your system. Dell and Lenovo offer firmware updates for many of their systems via LVFS, however HP only has a very small number of firmware updates available on LVFS.įortunately it is possible to install firmware updates without having Windows installed, but it’s a bit more manual work. On Linux you can use the LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) to easily install firmware updates with the fwupd utility or any of its graphical front-ends (such as GNOME Software or KDE Discover). This is important because firmware updates include essential security fixes. I wanted to update the BIOS/UEFI firmware to the latest version.

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