It is with some interest I have been following this thread:
Especially when the OP mentioned the BIOS issues and problems and HP recommending a system board replacement.
My little granddaughter received a HP Stream laptop for her birthday a little over a year ago. After only a couple months of use she asked me (the resident family Geek) to fix it. When I tried to boot it I received a 'No Boot Device Found" error. Not good. It has a 64 Gig solid state NVMe drive soldered onto the motherboard I believe. Windows 10-S of course
Whereas this machine was still under warranty I called HP Support. After several hours on the phone with them having me try this and try that HP finally gave up and had me send it back for a motherboard replacement! O.K.
We got the laptop back and it worked fine for several months then the SAME error reappeared! What the heck!
I call HP support again, go through the same rigamarole, they issue another RMA.
Well, I figured at this point I have nothing to lose, let's try some stuff.
I ended up wiping the drive, installing Windows 10 Home - NOT 10-S - and the laptop has been working fine ever since. It's been about 6 months and running with no errors.
There is a cautionary tale in here somewhere
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Especially when the OP mentioned the BIOS issues and problems and HP recommending a system board replacement.
My little granddaughter received a HP Stream laptop for her birthday a little over a year ago. After only a couple months of use she asked me (the resident family Geek) to fix it. When I tried to boot it I received a 'No Boot Device Found" error. Not good. It has a 64 Gig solid state NVMe drive soldered onto the motherboard I believe. Windows 10-S of course
Whereas this machine was still under warranty I called HP Support. After several hours on the phone with them having me try this and try that HP finally gave up and had me send it back for a motherboard replacement! O.K.
We got the laptop back and it worked fine for several months then the SAME error reappeared! What the heck!
I call HP support again, go through the same rigamarole, they issue another RMA.
Well, I figured at this point I have nothing to lose, let's try some stuff.
I ended up wiping the drive, installing Windows 10 Home - NOT 10-S - and the laptop has been working fine ever since. It's been about 6 months and running with no errors.
There is a cautionary tale in here somewhere