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    Did anyone notice Bios F.14 on the HP Site today?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Mickey Alberto, Jan 30, 2007.

  1. Mickey Alberto

    Mickey Alberto Notebook Geek

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    This morning I was checking out HP's website for any driver updates for DV9030US. I was thinking there might be a handful of Vista updates since it hit the shelves this morning. I was suprised to see a BIOS update labled F.14. The "SP" on the exe was entiled SP34671.exe. I tried to get and it wasn't available on the FTP server. I wouldn't have installed it but was curious since the version was "8" releases higher than the current F.06.

    Did anyone else see this or perhaps acquire it?

    I wonder if it was a mistake or test code released in the wild?

    --Mickey
     
    Mickey Alberto, Jan 30, 2007
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    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    It was indeed a test release of the new BIOS, I have it installed, and seems to be running smoothly. The only fix it incorporated was for the fan speed, which doesn't seem to do much of anything.

    I have the BIOS package (F.14 released 1/9/2007) if you would like it, send me a message through AIM- s/n is

    xairman100
     
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  3. Mickey Alberto

    Mickey Alberto Notebook Geek

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    Fixes the Fan but doesn't do anything? Guess that means it didn't work. Bummer. Was hoping for good things. HP must be starting to acknowledge fan issues.

    Believe it or not - no AIM here.

    --Mick
     
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