Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes? On Dec 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 >