TITLE: ROMPaq for Notebooks System BIOS Update

VERSION: KG.M1.12
DESCRIPTION:
This SoftPaq creates a ROMPaq firmware diskette that can be used to locally restore or 
upgrade the System BIOS in the notebook models listed.

PURPOSE: Routine Release
SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP25883
SUPERSEDES:  SP25693, SP25341
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 16, 2003
CATEGORY: BIOS
SSM SUPPORTED: No

PRODUCT TYPE(S):
Notebooks

PRODUCT MODEL(S): 
HP Compaq Business Notebook nx9000

OPERATING SYSTEM(S): 
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows xp Home
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 
LANGUAGE(S): 
Global

FIXES:.
In this SoftPaq (Version KG.M1.12)
 - Fixes issue where user could access printer mode option with user password login. 
 - Fixes issue where keys were intermittently unusable. 
 - Fixes issue where there was no prompt for the hard drive password when a hard drive 
   was installed from a different system. 

In previous release (Version KG.M1.10) and also in this SoftPaq
 - Fixes system lockup at POST.
 - Fixes issue where BIOS setting could not be changed to EPP mode.

PREREQUISITES: 
N/A
 
HOW TO USE: 

1. Download the SoftPaq to an empty directory on your hard drive.
The file downloaded is a self-extracting executable with a filename based on the
SoftPaq Number above.

2. From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file
and follow the on-screen instructions.

3. After the diskette has been created, you may delete the
SoftPaq file downloaded in step 2.

4. Turn off the computer.

5. Place the newly created ROMPaq Diskette in Drive A: and turn on the computer to update 
the system BIOS.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT TURN OFF POWER TO THE COMPUTER WHILE PERFORMING THIS PROCEDURE!
 

Copyright (c) 2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.