Reflashing BIOS.
koder
iscreamkid at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 19:21:56 MST 2014
OK, at least you are not looking at a new MB
I am working on the premise that some of the disk has part of the
formatting trashed.
There are a couple of levels of format; factory, and a user level
Wiser heads than mine will have to advise, but I would guess you need a
low level of formatting, partitioning and the put a file system on.
I am not sure if you can do this through a USB connection. Not part of
my skillset.
But, if it can't be done thorough USB, most USB drives have a standard
drive that you can take out and install in a standard computer and work
from there. Operative word, most.
How much of the EFI/UEFI code is on the hard drive that was trashed out?
I am not sure, but I don't think it all is in BIOS, but this is an HP.
On 12/17/2014 07:10 PM, Stephen M wrote:
> My drive is plugged in and yes I can boot into a live CD. For a while
> it allowed me to fix the grub bootloader. Not it says it found a GPT
> partition but nothing is on there but the OS. And when I try to
> format a bios_boot partition. It just throws up more errors.
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:57 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com
> <mailto:iscreamkid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD?
>
> In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent?
>
>
>
>
> On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <tel:602-400-7707>
>>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:SMelheim85 at gmail.com>
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