Silly Manufacturer...

[marblewave]

Hi there,

I recentlly got an HP Pavillion A1626N from *cough* Futureshop, since the deal was worth it for me. I have run into an annoying problem though. The BIOS seems to be "sanitized for my protection (read annoyance)".

The boot screen shows Video and System Bios Cacheable settings of "enabled" and of course the bios itself has no options visible to disable the settings.

I have heard that with other OEM's there are keystrokes i.e. Ctl+F1 to enter the "advanced" bios where system timings, voltages etc. can all be manipulated like they can in most "normal" systems.

Does anyone know if it's possible to do the same with my HP? Or could I just flash my bios with an unsanitized version?

I have the Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG

Thanks for your time!

 

[wanderer27]

It looks like that model has integrated graphics, so I'm not sure you can do a whole lot with those settings.

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're saying/trying to do.

Take a look here:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/prod...n&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3254009&lang=en

There are guides for updating the BIOS and several options you may be interested in.

 

[marblewave]

It does have integrated graphics, but I have an ATI X1900GT installed. I also want to mess about with overclocking etc. and no options for that kind of tweaking are in the bios.

I did upgrade to the latest HP version, but that didn't seem to open any new options to me.

Thanks!

 

[wanderer27]

Here, this discusses installing a Video Card and the BIOS procedures:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu...c=en&product=3254009&docname=c00007413

Good luck