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    HP Envy 17-J029nr "Bricked BIOS"

    Discussion in 'HP' started by v-4abrew, Nov 2, 2013.

  1. v-4abrew

    v-4abrew Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I upgraded my BIOS to the new F.35 and even though it was it was successful and flash did run its course to 100% after the reboot it gave me a blank screen. Using Windows+B keys to get into recovery was no help but it did Flash 2 times on the Caps Key which means a Corrupted Bios.

    I am under warranty, HP will fix it, but before I ship it in thought I would ask if anyone knew how to get the Files I needed to Recovery this myself? I do know the new Bios gives you 3 options which one was to create a USB Recovery I knew I should have done that, but sadly you can't do it on another machine so far its been greyed out for me.

    Any idea's?
     
    v-4abrew, Nov 2, 2013
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  2. dibe

    dibe Notebook Enthusiast

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    Assuming it is some sort of SATA drive, you could get a external hard drive enclosure and pop the hard drive in there and then cop it over to another computer.
     
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    v-4abrew Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nope, I deleted everything off the hard drives already when I made the msata my main boot drive.
     
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    Sorry, I misread your question. If the BIOS is corrupted, there is going to be very little if not nothing at all you would be able to do on your end about it.
     
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    The latest bios from HP provides 3 options actually and they have a Recovery Mode using the Windows+B key before powering on the pc to restore it. The new option shows a way to flash it from within Windows, Make a USB Recovery in case what happened to me, or put the file somewhere to access using the Options from the BIOS. Sadly, I did not make any of these options and just ran it so I know for a fact there is a way I can restore it, how is the question.

    I have already talked to HP and in process in shipping it in for a replacement, just wondering if anyone else has any idea's on fixing this.

    Thanks!
     
    v-4abrew, Nov 2, 2013
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