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HP Pavilion zd7160us won't boot after BIOS upgrade...
I just upgraded the BIOS from a driver on the HP website and now after you see the HP logo it will beep once and show me "Unsupported wireless network device detected" System halted. Remove the device and reboot."
Problem is that this was due to their BIOS upgrade and the wireless device they're talking about is the built in card I have.
Does anyone know of a way to clear this up without doing something like ripping off the top cover and pulling out the CMOS battery?
Problem is that this was due to their BIOS upgrade and the wireless device they're talking about is the built in card I have.
Does anyone know of a way to clear this up without doing something like ripping off the top cover and pulling out the CMOS battery?
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yeah, I can access the BIOS, but the new BIOS is the problem. It's not really trying to boot from the NIC card, as soon as it displays the logo it beeps and throws that error. It doesn't have a chance to boot from the HD or the cd/dvd. I have the Windows CD in there and it skips right by it.
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and it's built in wireless....
can you flash the bios to the old version ?
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The only thing I can get at is the BIOS itself. I tried putting it back to factory settings and that did nothing so the only other thing I can think of is opening the whole laptop up and removing the CMOS battery and jumper so it goes back to the factory CMOS.
However, I don't know where the CMOS battery is for the zd7160us motherboard. That's why I was hoping to find some way of doing this without tearing the computer into little pieces.
However, I don't know where the CMOS battery is for the zd7160us motherboard. That's why I was hoping to find some way of doing this without tearing the computer into little pieces.
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It ended up that HP was willing to take it back to service it because of what happened with their 'recommended' upgrade.
I'll give the points to you, sparkmaker, since your solution would have most likely cleared the problem. However, if someone at HP is willing to take the thing apart instead of me having to take out all the screws, I'll do that. :)
Thanks.
I'll give the points to you, sparkmaker, since your solution would have most likely cleared the problem. However, if someone at HP is willing to take the thing apart instead of me having to take out all the screws, I'll do that. :)
Thanks.
Definitely the right decision since they were the guilty party with a bad update.
If this doesn't work you will have to physically remove the wireless card
Here is the guide to do so, click on the left link for "Wireless LAN Mini PCI card"
http://h20181.www2.hp.com/plmcontent/NACSC/SML/results.htm?SID=366373&MEID=548934D5-C75F-4EC4-92A7-D00D8E73EBBA
Once the computer starts properly, shut down and reinstall the wireless card.