> Plus rufus doesn't see my USB drive when my laptop does. As for
> trying to open an EFI shell, thats not happening.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stephen Partington
> <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
>
> On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington"
> <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
>
> On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <smelheim85@gmail.com
> <mailto:smelheim85@gmail.com>> 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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