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    HP Pavilion G6 BIOS Emergency Recovery

    Discussion in 'HP' started by cl8, Feb 18, 2012.

  1. cl8

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    Hi Everyone,

    Recently bought a HP G6-1378sa model from Dixons UK and have been having problems.

    I tried to update my BIOS using the Insyde BIOS flash utility from the HP website and unfortunately the application froze while doing the update. After an hour I gave in and turned off the laptop manually.

    Predictably, the laptop now boots to a black screen.

    The problem is, the HP website suggests holding Win + B to recover the BIOS from the recovery partition on the HDD.

    I deleted that partition to recover space, so I don't have it.

    I have tried downloading the latest and previous BIOS files and tried putting the .BIN files onto a flash disk drive and use Win + B with that inserted.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    cl8.
     
    cl8, Feb 18, 2012
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