well welcome back to the adventure today we are preparing an old HP laptop for a future project
here we are in the Bios of this HP dv5000 laptop the first order of business is to update the BIOS
currently we are on version f13 and the latest available version is f24a
many PCs that shipped with Windows XP admit the minimum requirements for Windows Vista
how to bios update available that is needed before upgrading to Windows Vista without giving too much
away a future episode featuring this laptop may involve an operating system that is not Windows XP
the BIOS update package can be obtained from this website that is not hp's support site
we can then take that installer package and run it on the HP system
here we are in the mini XP environment from hyran's boot CD
do pay attention to These Warnings definitely have the laptop plugged into power and the
battery charged some bios updates will not start if there is a detected issue with the battery
I am ready to proceed so I will click ok
and then click yes to agree and continue
this process looks smooth and it should be if the system is functioning correctly and the directions
are followed I have in the past had very anxiety-inducing experiences with bios updates
if there is any interest in hearing a personal story about a bios update
gone wrong let me know down in the comments
back in the Bios we can confirm that the update was successful
and there is something new Under video memory it now says XP only neat
next up I want to run the hard drive self-test
the hard drive self-test built into the bios of mini HP notebook computers that
were manufactured after 2003 tests the condition and integrity of the hard drive many computer
problems are related to soft failures of the hard drive the comprehensive portion of the HP
hard drive to self-test repairs soft errors on the drive but does not report the areas
to avoid investing time in this PC and later finding out the hardware
is faulty I want to check it now and replace the hardware if needed
the hard drive passed the self-test so we are in good shape
next I want to test the memory using mem test86 Plus which is also available on the hyrins boot CD
MIM test86 plus tests random access memory for Errors By writing test patterns to
most memory addresses reading back the data and comparing the data for errors
each tries to verify that the ram will accept and correctly retain arbitrary
patterns of data written to it and there are no errors where different
bits of memory interact and that there are no conflicts between memory addresses
after two passes zero errors were detected I'm satisfied that the ram is functioning correctly
back in the mini XP environment and want to use Snappy to capture
the hardware IDs for the devices so I can Source drivers for them
when I talk about manually searching for drivers I get questions on why I don't just use a tool
like Snappy there are several reasons for this for this particular project I need drivers that
are for a different operating system if there is some way to select the operating system
that I want drivers for and I'm just missing it please let me know down in the comments
secondly Snappy isn't perfect if it can't find
a driver for whatever reason I still need the skill of manually sourcing the driver
I also don't care for not having the option of vetting where the driver is being downloaded from
don't get me wrong Snappy is very convenient and will work well for the average user if every user
wanted absolute control over everything their computer does we would all run Arch or gen2
now that I have collected the hardware IDs I can get to work finding the drivers
that's it for prepping this PC for our future project thanks for stopping by see you next video
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