Upgrading To Win 10 Should I Update The Bios

Working on a friend's Acer Aspire 5742Z and want to see if it will enjoy Windows 10.
Current BIOS is version 1.60.
Can't find the newest BIOS on Acer site.
Found. A 1.30 version?
But created 2012/11/13

Do you think I should upgrade the BIOS before I attempt a Windows 10 installation? Or should I keep the 1994 BIOS?

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thank you plodr.

I went into the BIOS from a F2 command at boot up.

True but my desktop happily runs Windows 10 64bit even though it arrived with XP 32bit and had updates for Vista.
Windows 10 is quite good at making systems work...
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Found a problem with the laptop
Acer Aspire 5742 AC DC Power Jack Repair

Part is on its way.
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The Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade will be available for almost all Acer computer that shipped with Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1

I might be lucky,
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Thank you plodr, I will point that out to my mate,
The laptop is currently installing windows 7 updates. 55 of them.
The laptop will work better for what I'm doing with its current HDD.
I do plan to update the BIOS and then check for driver updates.

When I'm happy with windows 7 running I shall replace disks and try for Windows 10.
Might be a complete waste of time.
Kind regards,
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Running Win 10 on an unsupported system is obviously a bit of a suck it and see affair. We have a 2006 Medion here, like your machine supplied with 32 bit XP and a Vista upgrade, but with its RAM upped to 4GB it runs 32 bit Win 10 faultlessly. However one of these days a new Win 10 version will have insurmountable issues I'm sure. We also have a couple of Lenovo Thinkpads which likewise are unsupported for Win 10 but so far have run it without issues, everything works. But I upgraded all these machine when Win 10 was free. I rather doubt I would have done so if I had had to pay £120 each time.

 

What you say is very true. I did read somewhere about entering a windows 7 code into the Windows serial number box.

I will certainly keep the windows 7 disk especially as it is now updated with the latest BIOS. Thank you IODiverbooster
The experiment will continue...
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Further to the thought that Windows 10 costs £120 I would like to present a video that was published yesterday. It has been put together by Britec; a youtube character that I have followed for a couple of years.
Windows 10 Pro for $15

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Firstly I wouldn't trust any site like that since you have no idea if the install will be blocked or activation will be blocked.
And that website (SCDKey) is NOT offering Windows 10 Pro for $15 but $31.90
https://www.scdkey.com/microsoft-windows-10-pro-retail-cd-key-global_1520-20.html

 

I did pay £19 for Windows 10 pro almost 2 years ago and it has been activated ever since. It was something of a risk.
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Update.
Managed to get Windows enterprise running on 3GB RAM 2.0GHz

Gone back to Windows 7.
Replacing the drive for SSD.
Top up the RAM.
Sorted.

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Actually, the site does have Win 10 Pro OEM for $15.22. The Retail version is $32.31.

https://www.scdkey.com/software.html

 

It does seem a bit dodgy but one can easily spend $30 on a couple's night out, so I suppose it's not a huge risk.

P.S.: I now have Office 2016 Pro and all the official MS bells and whistles, so it appears to be legitimate.

 

It didn't on the day I searched quite widely a week ago. I would not have missed that.