I meant title to be: BIOS Update DV6-3143 - can't update from FreeDOS environment...Sorry for the confusion...
Hi everybody. I am trying to flash a new BIOS update from F23 to F29 for my HP dv6-3143 laptop. I am having trouble executing the InsydeFlash.exe to load the F29 bin file. Apparently it will not run in a FreeDOS environment. I am a complete newb to ubuntu/linux coming from programming in windows the past years...Any ideas how to get this BIOS updated without installing windows or bricking my laptop? thanks in advance
I have followed instructions to extract my the driver I downloaded from the HP website
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...roduct=4332734
I downloaded the Win 64 bit...
The EXE could not be run from FreeDOS so I extracted the file using 7z
I got the following files...
01448F29.BIN <==this is my BIOS, have no idea how to get it to run in FreeDOS
platform.ini
xerces-c_2_7.dll
iscflashx64.sys
icsflash.sys
iscflash.dss
insydeflash.exe <===updates the BIN file but cannot be run in a FreeDOS environment
fwupdLcl.exe
Flshookdll.dll
ding.wav
AtpTimerinfo.dll
I have tried the websites below
http://jennyandlih.com/flashing-bios-exe-ubuntu
http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-f...ppy-drive.html
i am looking at
http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011...p-insyde-bios/
scratching my head
I have checked FLASHROM - and i dont think my laptop/motherboard is compatable so i am not going to try the lazy man's route
http://op111.net/83/
i have tried creating a bootableCD for the sp55299.exe (hp driver file name) and running the sp file within FreeDOS it will not execute
I have tried creating a bootable CD for all the files extracted from the sp55299.exe (hp driver file name) and running all exes. each exe when executed came back with nothing. i tried insydeflash 01448F29.BIN and nothing happened....
After more research i figured out insydeflash.exe updates the bios using the BIN file but will not do it in FreeDOS
Is there anyway i can create a bootable CD in linux so i can update my bios??? i removed my windows partition when i did the install on the laptop =(
i would have to order a recovery cd to re-install windows to install the BIOS update...
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