<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"><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 class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-mb</font></span><div><div class="h5"><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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