Press the "F10" keyboard key while the laptop is starting up. Most HP Pavilion computers use this key to successfully unlock the BIOS screen.

Press the "F10" key repeatedly as the computer starts up. If nothing happens, press the "F1" key. According to HP, one of these two buttons should boot the BIOS.

I had a problem with one of lowend HP MLs - it would not display BIOS screen on HP monitor, so I overlooked pressing key. I spend like 1h with support on late December evening.

I have an old HP ProBook 6450b, based on an early first gen i5 M450. I've had Windows 10 32-bit on it for several years, and I'm now upgrading the RAM from 2x2GB to 2x4GB, 8GB Total, PC3-10600 ...

In brief: Do you own an HP laptop, desktop, or PoS PC? Then you might want to ensure its BIOS is up to date. The company has just released updates for more than 200 device models that fix two high ...