Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:21 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: flashrom@flashrom.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, vidwer@gmail.com Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain Message-ID: <201211011127.qA1BRLFZ010097@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAPp9OrmT00KM_cz8vCqOnRSWPAPY_mqa965whEsNiSQgu3E0Ug@mail.gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:28:22 +0100 Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain From: Idwer Vollering <vidwer@gmail.com> 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
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