Nevermind missed that this was post dban. On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" wrote: > 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 < >> cryptworks@gmail.com> 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 >> >