Reflashing BIOS.

[Stephen Partington]

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 at 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?
>
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