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
> <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto: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
> <michael@butash.net <mailto:michael@butash.net>> 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 <tel:602-400-7707>
>> SMelheim85@gmail.com <mailto:SMelheim85@gmail.com>
>>
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