Sure you install windows on it then install the bios then you blow away wondows again. I don't know the hp magic to update bios'.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Todd Alan Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Epidemic SomeGuy > <epidemic.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> > > Or maybe the bios is so badly broken that the "real fix" for this > > would be in the form of a bios-update from HP? > > I'll look for that too. > > There is a BIOS update for the 786F6 systems (which is what I have): > http://preview.tinyurl.com/2gxtyu6 > > Intuitive update instructions are here: > http://preview.tinyurl.com/27gfryg > > The thing is... it doesn't list a BIOS update for Linux. This must be > due to the linuxbios that bofh referred to, no? For Windows 7, it just > lists the Business Desktops BIOS Utilities (ver. 4.02 Rev. A). For > Windows XP Pro and all Windows Vista variations, it lists both the > Business Desktops BIOS Utilities (ver. 4.02 Rev. A) and the HP Compaq > Business Desktop System BIOS - 786F6 BIOS (ver. 3.10 Rev. A). For > Windows 2000, it lists just the 3.10 update. My machine actually > shipped with Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, with a BIOS > version of 01.09. I'm thinking I ought to try the 3.10 update. > > Thoughts? Marco?
