Possible solution if you have a USB stick: rufus.akeo.ie Makes bootable sticks.... put your bios updater on it? On 12/17/2014 11:26 AM, Stephen M 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 > > 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 > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > > -- > 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