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01-06-2012, 08:56 PM
ok, I am new here but I am trying to help with my knowledge:
It seems that they udpated your bios to the very last stand - I suppose your software installation with all drivers is the old one - so if there where some BIOS elements (like option roms or new bios settings) are changed the old drivers may have some issues with that.
=> 1 a light version of that would be to update any single driver of your hardware, especially Graphics (is it onboards chipset graphics or a dedicated) SATA controller (maybe an intel, marvel or other HW), O/EHCI USB and of course chipset drivers. but also LAN, WLAN, BT can interrupt these things.
=> 2 if this is the problem you could completely save your data and make a fresh install with recovery function of your HP or even install a complete new OS with the serial keys you have (a sticker on the bottom of your hardware) and install every driver new and also your needed software - so everything is clean and should work.
=> 3 if there is really some problem with the BIOS not working correctly, then you should manually reflash the old BIOS version, everey Flash tool has some commands to override ab backflashing (you should know retail hardware isoften locked to reflash old BIOS versions). As I dont know your BIOS (AWARD, PHOENIX, AMI, ... something else) it is not that easy to know how to override this!
check your manual for the bios manufacturer and stick back to here - so more people know more details and are willing to help.
I also made some mistakes here not giving needed information...
I would leave the last BIOS, normally in most cases this is the option to gain stability and better hardware support... so start with 1, going to 2 and at least go to 3
If you want to make it fast and do not want the latest BIOS - reflash the old BIOS with the valid force command of the flash program => this you have to discover.
Here an example of AWARDs AWDFLASH.EXE flashing program for DOS but only for systems with AWARD BIOS:
AWDFLASH.EXE xxxxxx.BIN /CC /CD /CP /F /R /PY /SN
AWDFLASH.EXE command modifiers used are:
/CC = clear CMOS data after programming.
/CD = clear DMI data after programming.
/CP = clear PnP (ESCD) data after programming.
/F = use flash routines in the BIOS for programming (force flash).
/R = reset system after programming.
/PY = program flash memory.
/SN = don't save existing BIOS