[geeks] recover from HP Pavilion failed BIOS update

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/27/10 01:03, Dan Duncan wrote:
> Short story:   The HP Pavilion I just got booted to Vista (home
> premium, as shipped) to install a BIOS update HP lists as CRITICAL and
> croaked during the BIOS update.  Now the system will not boot or show
> any display and just sounds 3 long beeps.

I personally tend to think, from personal experience, that any BIOS
update scheme intended to run from within Windows is a bad one.  My
experience is that Windows-based BIOS update utilities have a very high
probability of failure.


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