I'll see if I can get answer internally. An alternative might be to see if you can hold of one of the Windows PE or similar bootable CDs.
Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Clarke Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 11:42 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how? Hi all, I have an HP laptop (Pavilion dv5230tx) which has a very old BIOS installed and I want to upgrade to the latest version. According to HP's change log, Core 2 Duo support wasn't added to the BIOS until the version after the one I have, even though the laptop has a Core 2 Duo processor. I've been trying to get suspend and hibernate working, and I suspect the old BIOS is part of the problem. Hibernate used to work before I had the motherboard replaced, and I'm fairly sure that the old one had a more recent BIOS. I've had a couple of other weird occasional problems which I suspect are due to the BIOS (keyboard not working after boot and mouse behaving very strangely) too. Unfortunately HP only provide updates as a package with a Windows (not DOS) program called WinFlash. I've wiped Windows off the laptop, so my only choices are to reinstall Windows (which means wiping Linux first because HP only provide "recovery" discs and I don't have a spare laptop SATA drive), or to run WinFlash with wine. I've started the program and it does appear to run, but I haven't been game to let it flash the BIOS yet. Does anyone know whether it's likely to work or if it'll turn my laptop into a brick, or is there another way to do it? Thanks, John -- I can check out all the porn I want to at home, but when I get to work, that's when I'm supposed to be surfing the web and reading USENET. -- Eric Schwartz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
