Compal HGL30 116A Bios Anyone Try It.

I was wondering if anyone here has flashed their laptops with the new bios version 116a. No information as to the fixes/updates.
Hope to hear from someone...

http://www.compal.com/asp/driver_dnd/e_download.asp?M_Path=/Download/NB/HGL30_31/BIOS/116A

Thanks
pete

 

Anyone...Pete

 

didn't have the chance to try it yet, anyone knows what improvements does it have????

 

I'm going to try it tonight and see if it'll fix any of my Vista issues.

 

Out of curiosity what vista issues are u having ?

Please let us know what if any diffrences you notice , Thanks Pete

 

Thanks. I dl'ed the HP Flash Disk utility last night but was unable to install it in Vista. I will redownload the utility and prepare the usb drive on an XP machine. I have had several different boot screens. Uncorrectable hardware error, Page Fault in Non paged area and one that doesn't give any reason.

 

Oh, and PFN LIST CORRUPT.

 

Make sue you run the HP installation file as an administrator. refer to this post by me if you need any help.

 

Hrmm, I believe they changed the program or something because it's asking me for an .img file for my DOS boot image and all I have is a folder.

 

In short what u need to do to flash the bios:
1. download the hp usb flash tool
2. Copy and extract the bios stuff onto the flash drive.
3. change boot sequnce to boot off usb
4. execute the flash program and follow on screen instruction to flash bios.
5. restart computer, reset defult settings restart system and enter your options.

LEt us know
pete

 

Yeah, doesn't seem to be working because I can't do what the guide is telling me to.

 

I've flashed my HGL30 with the 116A bios. Everything seems fine. I wish Compal would have included a changelog so we would know what is supposed to be fixed/improved. I always update to the latest bios in hopes that Compal will implement a thermal policy where the fan spins at a constant low rpm and then increases as necessary based on the cpu temp instead of the annoying on off cycle that they currently implement.

 

I have 115A and the fan is constantly on at low speeds until the cpu heats up.

 

Hrmmm, what procedure did you use to flash it ertw?

 

Nevermind. It turns out I've been downloading the wrong USB drive tool.

 

Anyone run any benchmarks ? I really hate it when they release stuff without any notes...

Also did they officially stop making updated drivers for this notebook, there hasn't been any updates in a while, and vista compatibility isnt perfect yet..

Pete

 

Just to let everyone know i tried it and works fine...I am not sure if it changes or improves anything but it does indeed work.

Pete

 

I'm using it now, I haven't observed any changes from the previous one. Maybe it's something like a microcode update from Intel or some such?

 

It works fine with Windows. I think it may have broken the ACPI under Linux, though. I'm going to try rolling back to the 115A and see if that is indeed the case.

 

I know this thread is pretty old, but in case anyone else happens upon it as I did I wanted to share my experience. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and found that my CPU/GPU fan wasn't running, so if I really taxed the processor my computer would eventually shut down (from overheating, I think). So I figured I'd try upgrading my BIOS to 116A--this got the fan working nicely, but suspend and hibernate didn't work anymore. Ubuntu would go into suspend or hibernate fine it seemed, but when I tried resuming it would act like it was working, but eventually just hang on a black screen.

I think my BIOS version before upgrading was 105 or something like that, so I decided to try some versions in between. I tried 115A with the same results as 116A, but then tried 111, and now both the fan and suspend/hibernate work, so that seems to be the magic number, at least for me.

By the way, I used a flashing boot CD from bootdisk.com to do the BIOS flashes.

 

Yup, I'm on 111 aswell. Both Fan (off, on and low rpm) and suspend work in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy.