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    F11 and MBR

    Discussion in 'HP' started by cemmec, Dec 1, 2007.

  1. cemmec

    cemmec Newbie

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    Hi everyone,

    My F11 key is not working during boot anymore. I think it was because I updated the bios.

    I think I can to solve this problem trying 2 things:

    1) Rollback the original version of the bios. But I don't have it and I don't know how to do it. Does anyone knows?

    2) Rewrite MBR. I found other posts where people said that there is a program called MBRInst.exe that can rewrite the MBR along with a MBRInst.ini, but I don't have this file in my Recovery Partition. I also read about other tools but I also don't have them. Can anyone send it to me? Or maybe backup the MBR with another tool and send to me so I can restore it.

    My notebook is a HP dv6629us and this is really important to me because I'd like to sell it and I must have it working with all his features.

    Thanks for the help.
     
    cemmec, Dec 1, 2007
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  2. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    be careful with rolling back bios
    sometimes this makes things worse
     
    timtravel42, Dec 1, 2007
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  3. cemmec

    cemmec Newbie

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    Ok, but what do you think about my problem? Do you know how to help me solve it?
     
    cemmec, Dec 1, 2007
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    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    the mbrinst files are in the C:/System.sav/util folder
    you can do a search in windows to find the file (type in mbrinst)
     
    timtravel42, Dec 1, 2007
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    cemmec Newbie

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    Thanks. I found it and run using mbr.ini but nothing has changed. F11 still doesn't work.

    What should I did wrong?
     
    cemmec, Dec 2, 2007
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    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    do any of the F(number) buttons work besides the F11 (such as F10 for setup)
     
    timtravel42, Dec 2, 2007
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