<p dir="ltr">Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <<a href="mailto:smelheim85@gmail.com">smelheim85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div>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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2 thoughts,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">1 - Does the bios see the drive physically?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or something similar) to run the executable. or a windows environment.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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.<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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-mb</font></span><div><div><br>
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On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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?<br clear="all">
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