Hi my understanding was that hp was moving towards, non windows upgrades of bios/firmware etc. This being done with either free dos or linux boot images
Alex On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:37:00PM +1000, Visser, Martin wrote: > Even easier, might be get basically any Windows loaded hard drive, stick > it in a USB hard drive case and boot from that (assuming your model > allows you to boot from USB hard drives). If it is a notebook harddrive > you could even temporarily replace it with the one in your notebook. > Even if the hardware such as video is substantially different you should > at least be able to get it to boot into "safe mode." (Ugly I know). > > > 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 5:19 PM > To: slug@slug.org.au > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Upgrading HP laptop BIOS without Windows, how? > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:53:04PM +1000, Visser, Martin wrote: > > > I'll see if I can get answer internally. > > Thanks Martin. I'm a little annoyed that when my laptop died & the > motherboard was replaced under warranty, the replacement had a very old > BIOS, and they didn't set the model and serial numbers. > > > An alternative might be to see if you can hold of one of the Windows > > PE or similar bootable CDs. > > I didn't know such a thing existed. I gave up on Windows years ago :-) > We do use it at work though, so I'll see what I can do. > > > Thanks, > > John > -- > If you want to watch [a hard drive] die a slow agonizing death, whilst > incoveniencing the maximum number of your lusers, install it in the part > of your news spool that handles alt.sex.* > -- Brian Kantor > -- > 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 >
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