From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 11:27:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0607E9FF for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10808FC17 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from irix.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.39] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTsvj-0000qC-8J; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:27:38 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTsvi-0000GW-Up; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:27:22 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qA1BRMo2010098; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:22 GMT (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id qA1BRLFZ010097; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:21 GMT (envelope-from mexas) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:21 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201211011127.qA1BRLFZ010097@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: flashrom@flashrom.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, vidwer@gmail.com Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -4.0 X-Spam-Level: ---- X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:27:40 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:28:22 +0100 Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain From: Idwer Vollering To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, flashrom@flashrom.org Another approach is to use an external SPI programmer: http://flashrom.org/Supported_programmers The 'downside' of this is that you need to take your laptop apart. ODM schematics of your laptop are found here: http://notebookschematic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/6515b_6715s.png Downloads for BIOS updates: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3356623&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=3368539&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093#120 and ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp55501-56000/sp55556.exe My guess (I am not a HP service technician) is that you need ROM.CAB/Rom.bin from sp55556.exe - you can use 7zip to extract Rom.bin This is probably way beyond my skills, but thanks anyway. Anton