Re: BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-13 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well.. the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with FreeBSD10. HP notebooks are closed works only with windows, are expensive consumes too much power, the bateries did not last... I

Re: BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From lenzi.ser...@gmail.com Tue Nov 13 16:17:49 2012 That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well.. the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with FreeBSD10. HP notebooks are

BIOS update saga - the end

2012-11-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can't find my original thread, so starting a new one. So I bought a spare laptop disk, installed freedos on it, made a usb memstick with HP BIOS updating executable, and booted from it, only to stop at: The BIOS on your notebook PC can not be updated. Refer to HP Customer Advisory C01457784