[opensuse] would you recommend a BIOS update?
Hello, Yesterday my new HP Pavilion HP Pavilion dv9760ez Notebook did not want to boot at all after a kind of freeze that happened when I disabled the touchpad. The keyboard and the mouse were blocked. After pressing the on/off switch openSuse 10.3 shut down but finally did not switch off the computer. When switching the computer on again I could hear the disk and the fan but the screen remained black, not even the BIOS/HP logo appeared. After googling I read two things: - taking out the battery and the power cable for a while, then restart again (that worked) - some forum threads said that's a BIOS issue, I should update the BIOS. On the HP site I can see a newer BIOS version. But first I am a bit afraid (will my openSuse 10.3 behave different when I update the BIOS? are there any "dangers" that could ruin my install?) and second HP offers only an exe-file for windows. There still is a Vista home-something on this computer, so I could probably run that exe-file*, but should I? (Untill now the above happend only once. Since then the Computer always booted normally. So I don't know if any action is necessary at all). What would you recommend somebody who likes to stay on the safe side? Let me know what you think, please. thanks Daniel * Vista was on this computer when I bought it. I started it once but it was looking so disgusting and displayed a page full of blinking ads, ebay stuff etc., so that I just shut it down and never started it again. My last windows experience was Win98, but I guess executing an exe-file should still work with that OEM-Vista, no? -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com erotic art photos: http://www.bauer-nudes.com Madagascar special: http://www.fotograf-basel.ch/madagascar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Bauer
Hello,
Yesterday my new HP Pavilion HP Pavilion dv9760ez Notebook did not want to boot at all after a kind of freeze that happened when I disabled the touchpad. The keyboard and the mouse were blocked. After pressing the on/off switch openSuse 10.3 shut down but finally did not switch off the computer.
When switching the computer on again I could hear the disk and the fan but the screen remained black, not even the BIOS/HP logo appeared.
After googling I read two things: - taking out the battery and the power cable for a while, then restart again (that worked) - some forum threads said that's a BIOS issue, I should update the BIOS.
I always walk on egg shells when I have to update the bios. I've usually managed to find ways to do it without re-installing any windows crap. If Vista is on it and that's what it came with I'd install the bios upgrade using vista unless HP has a method for doing a bios upgrade without use of windows. I would do the bios upgrade. I would do this while the machine is still under warranty. FYI: a useful tactic order new laptops with the smallest disk available, take it out install one of the size you want and run Linux on that, keeping the small disk for problems like this. use the small disk -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hello,
Yesterday my new HP Pavilion HP Pavilion dv9760ez Notebook did not want to boot at all after a kind of freeze that happened when I disabled the touchpad. The keyboard and the mouse were blocked. After pressing the on/off switch openSuse 10.3 shut down but finally did not switch off the computer.
When switching the computer on again I could hear the disk and the fan but the screen remained black, not even the BIOS/HP logo appeared.
In that case, given a computer which you KNOW was working before, and which fails to execute the same power-on-self-test code in the BIOS that it's been running since the day you got it, what makes you think that it's suddenly the BIOS that failed, and not the hardware? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Evens Garde
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hello,
Yesterday my new HP Pavilion HP Pavilion dv9760ez Notebook did not want to boot at all after a kind of freeze that happened when I disabled the touchpad. The keyboard and the mouse were blocked. After pressing the on/off switch openSuse 10.3 shut down but finally did not switch off the computer.
When switching the computer on again I could hear the disk and the fan but the screen remained black, not even the BIOS/HP logo appeared.
In that case, given a computer which you KNOW was working before, and which fails to execute the same power-on-self-test code in the BIOS that it's been running since the day you got it, what makes you think that it's suddenly the BIOS that failed, and not the hardware? --
The parts you clipped indicated that upon a forced power off it began to work again and he found information on the net about a known bios bug for which there was a bios update. Trim your posts, but read them before you trim them. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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