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WorkingHard

17th January 2009 10:10

Corrupt bios after flash

Hi All
I have unfortunately a corrupt BIOS on an HP d230. Any help in recovery would be appreciated. Anyone with a bios or motherboard going spare for example or instructions on how to re-flash. (It was a PSU failure in the middle of flashing the BIOS)
Thanks

Bushfiva

17th January 2009 10:45

If I remember, you can flash the d220/230 models a couple of ways: within Windows, and via a boot floppy and/or memory stick. Have you tried either of the latter two options?

Does this model support the "failsafe boot block"? If so, the computer will still have the ability to boot from what they used to call the "ROMpaq diskette". You'll need to create one of these. You can also force a failsafe boot mode on some machines by holding down "esc" while powering on. Google will point you the right way, I expect.

ORAC	17th January 2009 11:24

Good luck, this may work if it's a Phoenix BIOS...

Crisis Recovery

More detailed explanation here.

WorkingHard

18th January 2009 21:37

Thanks guys, you pointed me in the right direction and with some perseverance all is now fixed

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