Reflashing BIOS.

[Stephen Partington]

Well that's strange. We're there any recent changes?
On Dec 17, 2014 11:26 AM, "Stephen M" <smelheim85 at 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 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>
>> 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 at gmail.com
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
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