Upgrade BIOS on HP DV6500 w/Win7-64

HP Pavillion DV6500
Service Tag: dv6607rs
Memory: Upgraded from 2GB to 4GB
OS: Win7 Ultimate, 64-bit
HD: Upgraded to new Toshiba 1 TB HDD - MQ01ABD100
OLD HD: Western Digital WD1600BEVS - 60RST0
CPU: Upgraded to AMD Turion64 X2 TL-66, 2.3 GHz
OLD CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 TK-55, 1.8 GHz
Motherboard Model: Quanta 30CF
Motherboard Chipset: nVidia nForce 630M (C67)
BIOS: HP Phoenix, 7/23/2007, F.06
Got this laptop for free because it was constantly overheating and blue screening, and the keyboard didn't work. Bought new keyboard and fixed overheating by thorough cleaning and new heatsink thermal paste. Then, I decided to upgrade it as much as I can and use it for making music.
The BIOS are very old, F.06. I was told I should update the BIOS, since the newer BIOS also included fixes for overheating, among other things. Unfortunately, I was also told that you need the operating system to be Vista, or the BIOS update program will "brick" the laptop.
I got what I thought was the ingenious idea to use my old hard drive, install Vista on it (came to me with Win7 also), update the BIOS, and then put the new hard drive with Win7 back in. In the process of installing Vista on my old hard drive, the installation routine says the hard drive can't be found, and that I need to install some drivers to "see" the hard drive.
I'm not sure exactly what I need. I tried several AMD AHCI drivers, but I either haven't found the right ones, or I need somethng totally different than AMD AHCI drivers.
I guess I have two questions.
1. Is there some way to update the BIOS in Win7, without having to try doing it on a different hard drive with Vista?
2. If Vista has to be used, what exactly do I need/need to do to get Vista to recognize my original hard drive?
(Origina hard drive model listed at start of post)
I should point out that although I have not used the laptop much since I upgraded the CPU, everything seems to be working well. I'm just worried that I may still have some overheating problems, especially since the newer processor may generate just a bit more heat than the original (35 watts instead of 31 watts).
Thanks in advance for any help given.
Regards,
Bill
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@Radman63 ,
Hello and thank you for Posting on the HP support forums. In your situation you have gone outside the box. It is great when you have all the tools and can do the upgrades like you have.
The one problem here is you will have to go back to the original OS and configuration for this to be supported.
HP Pavilion dv6500 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC Drivers
What ever drivers and software that are supported will be found at that link.
I hope you can find what you need there.
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