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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 762902">As I said, I do have a good bit of experience with HP bios updates. (over many many hundreds of systems) I do not advise skipping major revisions and going to the top *IF*&nbsp; your machine is significantly behind. HP is very well known to not provide a single all encompassing update, we like to path HP through the&nbsp; updates. I&#039;ve seen countless issues over and over with skipping to the latest. However if your machine is say within the same &#039;year&#039; of the current bios, it&#039;s probably fine to skip and move to the latest. My issues over the years relate to bios that is way behind.Anyway, all of this is painless. HP provides an executable for each version. Download and run it. Once the system is rebooted, download the next one and run it. Very simple. I don&#039;t recommend the HP &#039;tool&#039; because often it doesn&#039;t report correctly. Just go to their website and download the revisions, step through them and walk away.<a href="https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-290-g1-microtower-pc/16665152" target="_blank">HP 290 G1 Microtower PC - Driver Downloads | HP® Customer Support</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 762902"] As I said, I do have a good bit of experience with HP bios updates. (over many many hundreds of systems) I do not advise skipping major revisions and going to the top[U] *IF* your machine is significantly behind.[/U] HP is very well known to not provide a single all encompassing update, we like to path HP through the updates. I've seen countless issues over and over with skipping to the latest. However if your machine is say within the same 'year' of the current bios, it's probably fine to skip and move to the latest. My issues over the years relate to bios that is way behind. Anyway, all of this is painless. HP provides an executable for each version. Download and run it. Once the system is rebooted, download the next one and run it. Very simple. I don't recommend the HP 'tool' because often it doesn't report correctly. Just go to their website and download the revisions, step through them and walk away. [URL="https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-290-g1-microtower-pc/16665152"]HP 290 G1 Microtower PC - Driver Downloads | HP® Customer Support[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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