Hello,
I have a problem with my HP pavilion dv5242ea. I was updating my bios with the windows flash bios utility by HP and during the process an error occurred with a blue screen appearing stating that an error occured and memory dumping started. I tried to close the laptop to restart it it didn't restart.
I removed the battery to shut down the laptop. When I openned the laptop again, the LEDs of the buttons turned on but with a black blank screen with no activity at all.
I searched for my problem in HP support page (just one day before they remove it), I found out that someone who had my same problem with a different model made a floppy disk for bios recovery for phoenix based HP notebooks. (My notebook's motherboard is HP), and it requires a floppy USB drive to the laptop with the bios image file (extension .wph) for the targetted model.
So I openned the old versions of the winflash utilities of my model from HP site with WinRAR and extracted the old versions of the bios.wph file and using that utlity and bios images I made a floppy disk for every bios version.
The recovery mode was done by the following.
1. COnnecting the USB floppy drive with the recovery floppy in it.
2. Removing the power cord and battery.
3. Pressing Win key + B
4. While pressing them inserting the cord, and still while pressing them I press the power button.
The computer kept beeping while the floppy drive LED is flashing on and off. This process continued for like 2 to 3 minutes with a long beep in the end while a high fan sound appears from the notebook indicating processor activity. I leave for like 30 min - 40 minutes after this and nothing happens even after I restart the laptop.
Can you please help?
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