Comments on: HP Pavilion Recover from failed BIOS update

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:01:48 +0000

Thanks for this article, now I guess I’ll just have to cycle 3 km to a shop to get my laptop working (better than using a 5 year old compaq desktop anyway!)

You’re really a life saviour, will post whether it worked or not, later
(it’s prefect timing, too, for finding this article . I want to play NFS:WO beta with my laptop. Yes, I’m the Carl that got from lvl 1 to 19 in a 37 min pursuit xD)

By: aldeby

aldeby — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:38:49 +0000

Mikkelsen, I don’t think so.
USB needs to be managed by the BIOS and if it is bricked theorically it couldn’t work.
I have never tried this though.

By: Mikkelsen

Mikkelsen — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:01:12 +0000

Is it possible to make a USB stick instead of a floppy?

By: aldeby

aldeby — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:51:26 +0000

Hi Rene!
You don’t need your pavilion laptop in order to extract the bios files. You may use any other computer downloading the BIOS package and either unpacking it or executing it. Of course you shouldn’t install the BIOS, I guess it will prompt you itself there is nothing to update. However in the meantime it would have unpacked the bios files in C:\SWSETUP\spNNNNN\SWinFlash (NNNN stands for the number of the installer). Over there you would find a file named BIOS.WPH

Wish you a good luck and please report if you succeed or find some other troubles in recovering your laptop!

By: rene

rene — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:15:32 +0000

replace the provided bios (BIOS.WPH) file with your laptop most current bios file (Phoenix only). Note that you should first extract from the BIOS updater exe tool the BIOS ROM, then rename your ROM as BIOS.WPH

i get lost here how can i find the bios.wph file if my laptop is in black screen, i cant acsess windows or anything at all .