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    BAD BIOS FLASH!! DV6000t

    Discussion in 'HP' started by heymrdj, Feb 5, 2009.

  1. heymrdj

    heymrdj Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a DV9500tCTO and a DV6000tCTO. Both of them had the issue of good hard drive to SD card performance, but abhorible SD to hard drive performance. It would run one core to 100% and 75% for the other. I contacted HP today about it and they told me about the F.59 BIOS that was designed to fix the issue. My current had been F.52. So I loaded it on my 9000 and rebooted, all good, better temps, and my SD worked as it should. So they said load it on the 6000 and check results. Everything seemed to go fine, said successful, brought up reboot message box, let the timer count down as normal, it shut down. Hit power button and fricking nothing! Black screen, and leds come on. Mute button turns orange, then goes blue and stays blue. Wireless light is orange. The fan starts up fast then slows to a quiet (like minimum speed) run. I don't know what to do. "Within the next 24-48 hours" my escalated case correspondant is supposed to call. I'm a college student. I cannot afford to replace this crap. And I can't afford 300$ charge i've been seeing float around for BIOS repair by HP. My 9000 still has 1.5 years of warranty, I wish it would have happened to it. My 6000 is out of warranty. I gotta have this second laptop for school, no way around it. But I can't afford to replace it right now, I just paid 6,500$ in tuition/rent/books. I did this according to a service techs recommendation, I don't see how I should have to pay for the ed update.

    I'm sorry but I'm REALLY PO'd. Any idea what's going to happen or what can be done?
     
    heymrdj, Feb 5, 2009
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    flipfire, Feb 5, 2009
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    heymrdj Notebook Enthusiast

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    That post worked perfect!!! she's back up as of right now. Also, as a side note, you DON"T NEED A USB FLOPPY. The Crisis software will format and place the files onto flash drives. Just make sure your flash drive is void of any files you may wanna keep ;).
     
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    Oh right.

    Lucky i remembered that exact post.
     
    flipfire, Feb 6, 2009
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    Tippey764 Notebook Deity

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    Tippey764, Feb 7, 2009
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    I have hp6385eu.
    ı have a problem. ıt' s led on but no lcd screen and external vga.
    ı try the post for write bıos.
    but no usp floppy light on.
    ı try every usb port. but i not read usb floppy.
    what can ı do?
     
    kdutman, May 9, 2009
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