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