Reflashing BIOS.

[Wayne Davis]

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 at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at 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 at butash.net <mailto: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?
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Stephen Melheim
>>         602-400-7707 <tel:602-400-7707>
>>         SMelheim85 at gmail.com <mailto:SMelheim85 at gmail.com>
>>
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