*HP EliteBook 8740w Owners Lounge - PART 2*

[Alexey25]

Of course mine is - (WD936EA) - i5(520M) 4GB 1333 RAM, 7820, 320 hdd

dxdiag says that my grafics drivers are 8.683.1.0 12.02.2010

cpu-z says that my bios is 68cad ver. f.01 02/12/2010

And my HP helper says that my drivers are up-to date.

Thank you,Aikimox

[knight427]

F.01 is really old. Press "Refresh" on your HP Support Assistant (upper right). Mine said it was up-to-date when I got it out of the box, but after pressing refresh, it needed to update just about everything.

[Aikimox]

^^ Yup, the video driver is old as well.

[Alexey25]

I pressed refresh - it thoght for 3 min and wrote that all my drivers are up-to date. Why is it like that? Now I visited hp site and it denoted that there is f.08 update. Thank you for help!

[Aikimox]

I pressed refresh - it thoght for 3 min and wrote that all my drivers are up-to date. Why is it like that? Now I visited hp site and it denoted that there is f.08 update. Thank you for help!

Sometimes HP Assistant has a weird behaviour.
Worst case scenario, you could always download and install the drivers manually.

[Alexey25]

Is there an opportunity to update the updator?) manual updating is too devastating. Btw your advice helped, at least now I will regard the hp site for stuff like updates

[Alexey25]

I dowloaded 08 bios update and tried to install it 5 times. But my PC starts up with the 01 one. What to do? Thank you for your willing to help.

[Siorah]

@knight.

DONT go back to f05. as the 5000M isn't supported!

it won't be read on the PCI-E bus, and you'll end up with a black screen!

F.08 *added* support for the 5000M so going back to previous might be a problem.

They are apparently fixing the battery bug with F.10 (December 20ish) as F.09 was pulled because it killed the PCI-E bus speeds for the 2800/3800M's with the new Vbios.


Just to keep ya informed.

(have you looked to see if your 5000M needs a vbios update? i am curious as there was a 5000M vbios in the F.08 update)

Source - HP UK Technical/HP Bios F.08

@ Alexy

you may need to update it using the USB stick option.

If you look through my posts i did a tutorial on how to do this mate,

F.01 is so old, you may need to update to F-05 First,

(i had to on this machine after they flashed it with the wrong bios lol)

Source - own experience

[Alexey25]

Siorah - thanks! Ill get onto this. Can you please privide a link to your reference and instructions? Btw should I update smt apart from bios? My updater doesnt work fine and says that all is up-to date

[knight427]

@knight.

DONT go back to f05. as the 5000M isn't supported!

it won't be read on the PCI-E bus, and you'll end up with a black screen!

F.08 *added* support for the 5000M so going back to previous might be a problem.

They are apparently fixing the battery bug with F.10 (December 20ish) as F.09 was pulled because it killed the PCI-E bus speeds for the 2800/3800M's with the new Vbios.


Just to keep ya informed.

(have you looked to see if your 5000M needs a vbios update? i am curious as there was a 5000M vbios in the F.08 update)

Source - HP UK Technical/HP Bios F.08

I wrote to my tech explaining my concern about F.05. I think he either forgot I now have FX5000M, or he was confused about F.09/F.08.

I checked my vbios in HWinfo32. It matches the vbios number listed in the F.08 update - Video BIOS Version: 70.00.37.00.0A.