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 "c

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...

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"