Reflashing BIOS.
koder
iscreamkid at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 18:57:38 MST 2014
If you do not have the hard drive plugged in can you boot to your DVD?
In other words can you boot up, say with Knoppix or equivalent?
On 12/17/2014 12:05 PM, Stephen M wrote:
> 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 at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Nevermind missed that this was post dban.
>
> On Dec 17, 2014 11:58 AM, "Stephen Partington"
> <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <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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