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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Possible solution if you have a USB
stick: rufus.akeo.ie<br>
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Makes bootable sticks.... put your bios updater on it?<br>
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On 12/17/2014 11:26 AM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
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<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>
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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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM,
Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif">1 - Does the bios see the drive
physically?</div>
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ms,sans-serif">2 - you will need a boot disk (freeDOS or
something similar) to run the executable. or a windows
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:19
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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
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On 12/17/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,<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
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