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09-15-2018, 11:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2018, 01:03 PM by GeorgettaCZ.)
Hands down, the laptop is alive but still runs with the F.67 (latest) version of BIOS. So no downgrade was done. Any of the key combos (Win+B or all-4-arrow-keys) while turning on the laptop, running only on 90W adaptor (battery removed), did NOT work for me...No! Any time I connect USB stick (using old 500MB Kingston 2.0, FAT formatted) with an older BIOS version (I got all of them F.22, 29,...40, 50, 60) to the right USB(2.0) port and power up the laptop, all I get is blinking CapsLock and FAN RPMs at max. I even remove the wwan and wlan cards and tried to flash without them. I also tried the usual way to tick the tick-box "Update BIOS" on the first page of the bios, then restart and let the flash procedure run... there I get an error message that the flash failed. Checked the .log file then back at my PC, it says that the 68SCE.S12 cannot be found...
Any ideas...?
BTW: what tools do you use for viewing and editing the bios files? Is it better to edit .bin files or .rom files?
Regards
EDIT_1: this is the log
09/15/18 17:53:57 HP BIOS Image Interface Protocol Version 1.0
09/15/18 17:53:58 BattInit: Protocol 2010.
09/15/18 17:53:58 All Required Protocols Located
09/15/18 17:53:58 PlatformLang reported as en-US.
09/15/18 17:53:58 Language Selected is currently (eng).
09/15/18 17:53:59 Bios Version = F.01
09/15/18 17:54:04 Failed Reading BIOS Signature File Hewlett-Packard\BIOS\New\68SCF.s12
09/15/18 17:54:04 Signature of BIOS Image failed verification (Not Found)