Reflashing BIOS.

[Stephen M]

Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop does.  As for trying to
open an EFI shell, thats not happening.


On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
> On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
>> On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <smelheim85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes the BIOS does see them both.  The trouble is that it was booting to
>>> EFI first now it won't boot to either legacy or EFI.  It just sits there
>>> after the setup screen.
>>> Ya thats what I am trying to work with.  I have a copy of WINs7 but it
>>> doesn't want to load.  This computer doesn't have a floppy and I don't have
>>> access to one at the moment.  So I need to find other solutions.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington <
>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2 thoughts,
>>>>
>>>> 1 - Does the bios see the drive physically?
>>>>
>>>> 2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or something similar) to run the
>>>> executable. or a windows environment.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  HP is notoriously horrible about supporting linux on desktop or
>>>>> laptop's, so you won't get help there.  They're also quite proprietary acpi
>>>>> implementations, so likely still (haven't looked in a while) no one bothers
>>>>> to figure out and support them.
>>>>>
>>>>> My first, and subsequently last, hp laptop I kept the original windoze
>>>>> disk for this purpose alone, and just loaded new ssd's with linux.  About
>>>>> 6mo ago I sold to a friend, but flashed the bios from windoze luckily
>>>>> having kept it as the only option I could find to get a current bios on
>>>>> it.  Install xp long enough on a temp disk to flash it?
>>>>>
>>>>> This is why I've usually decried HP to the good folks on this list -
>>>>> they're just not linux friendly, and hardly worth a darn for anything but
>>>>> servers anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> -mb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>  I need help again to be able to reflash my BIOS.  The reason is that
>>>>> my computer is having trouble reading my drives, CDs, or USBs.  I know this
>>>>> is the case with the desktop because it works fine in my laptop.  I have
>>>>> tried to reset the BIOS and thought at first to reinstall GRUB.  Nothing is
>>>>> working but my HDD does show it does have a OS on it.
>>>>>
>>>>>  i already downloaded the BIOS version from HP but it is an exe file.
>>>>> Could anyone help me to see how I can fix this problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Stephen Melheim
>>>>> 602-400-7707
>>>>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
>>>>
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