Reflashing BIOS.

[Stephen Partington]

Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> 602-400-7707
>> SMelheim85 at gmail.com
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