From a post of mine in ‘Questions’-
Updated BIOS with HP ‘Windows Utility’ and it killed the System!!
DO NOT UPGRADE THE BIOS UNLESS YOU ‘REALLY’ NEED TO
!! DON’T TAKE THE CHANCE !!!!
I say this because, (and I wouldn’t right up-front tell someone to not do this… but I will warn them now!)
** If it aint broke don’t fix it!!! **
I finally found (locally) another System with an almost identical CPU to put in the dead system to try booting.
Now understand, the CPU I took out was an:
Intel LGA775 631 @ 3ghz/65nm/2mb cache, & so on…
The replacement CPU is an:
LGA775 521 @ 2.8ghz/90nm/1mb cache, & so on…
!This is an older CPU than was in there..!
But, .. IT RUNS !!!!! (??)
Now, I don’t understand ??
I went to HP for the newest drivers and used ‘their’ Utility to get the correct BIOS ..
I’ve never been let down using/trusting these Windows utilities to NOT install the wrong BIOS.
It/They have always worked successfully ! It killed the system ! ! !
Does this mean HP installed an OLDER BIOS rather than a newer or current one?
I am totally at a loss on this!!! …
But, @ the cost of $80 (I had to buy a used system to replace the customers wasted one), but, I experimented and traded out CPUs, and !BANG!, up it came!
But now, I have the system back and running.
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I for one, am/will be ‘very’ leary about using one of those utilities again.
Just for anyones info……
