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 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@gmail.com > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen