Re: How to upgrade BIOS on a NX7000 with no floppy drive ?

Well put. Better than I could do, just hinting.

Back to the original point of this thread. USB floppy diskette drives seem to
run about $25 nowadays, more or less. You NX7000 should be new enough to be
able to recogize and boot from a USB floppy drive. The brand of USB floppy
drive is immaterial. They all work the same. You may have to change boot
options in the NX7000 CMOS setup menus to get the system to boot from floppy.

If the need to update the BIOS stems from an expected request to do so by HP
tech support, fine. But unless a specific BIOS update fixes a specific problem
with a system, it usually does not do much good, and runs the risk of rendering
a system inoperative if done improperly.

Having re-read you latest message, I'll give my educated guess as to one likely
cause of the shutdown problem with your NX7000. In a single word: HEAT. I've
attempted to repair several heat-challenged notebook computers in recent weeks.
If the computer has been subjected to excessive heat, either due to poor
original design or due to some quirk in its usage (e.g. clogged with dust, or
use in 100 degree ambient termperature), the only real solution is replacement
with a brand spanking new motherboard.

BTW, "OP" is the long standing Usenet abbreviation for "Original Poster". Of
all the statements made and phrases used by CB, it is perhaps the least
condescending... Ben Myers

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:19:30 +0200, "Six O'Clock"
<Six.O.Clock.Slowdown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>I am the original poster of the message asking for support.
>
>I think that Condescending Benjamin should refrain from making any more rash
>judgements.
>He keeps on referring to me as OP. So from now on I will refer to him as CB
>as he seems to prefer jargon to plain English.
>
>1. *Basically,* users need to use computers, not fix them, maintain them.
>Even less do they need to learn to master new techniques that repair
>techical problems that shouldn't appear in the first place.
>2. My nx7000 laptop crashes for no apparent reason. No matter what
>application I am using. The machine does a power-off while I am using it.
>About once a week. Battery and mains supply are apparently OK.
>3. I have been a HP customer since 1989 and I have always found that HP
>Support people - in such cases - usually ask, "Is your BIOS up to date?". So
>before complaining about these crashes I decided to do the update before the
>techie asked the question. (Nowadays, HP support has really gone down the
>drain. Often enough it's farmed out to third party companies, with arrogant
>21 year old schoolboys reading questions from a page, questions that have
>absolutely nothing to do with the problem.)
>4. There is now a school of thought that says that if HP brings out a BIOS
>update, the intelligent thing to do is NOT to apply it. BIOS updates are for
>newbies who are not on the insider knowledge circuit.
>5. I am the user. I dont know why CB says that I did not read the site
>sufficiently. What does he know about what I did or or did not do ? Jumping
>to conclusions. Arrogance.
>6. If CB finds that users are silly to rely on floppy drives as media for
>updates in 2005, why then does HP, in 2005, publish BIOS updates that
>require media that the user can't use? You can't have it both ways. It's HP
>that says we should copy the software to the floppy, and the user is some
>kind of half-wit because he tries to do what the web site techies tell him
>to do ? Apparently, CB himself has had a BIOS update in his brain. He has
>been reprogrammed so that whe he sees the word "floppy" on a HP site, he
>immediately interprets "Bootable CD" ... Legacy numbskulls from the 20th
>century - such as myself - must be such a drag.
>7. Does CB believe he is a cut above the average dumb newbie because he can
>make bootable CDs or bootable USB sticks ? yeah man ! You're so cool.
>Cutting edge technology.
>8. How is it that the combined power and wealth of HP and Compaq (remember
>the 70 million dollar bonus to Carly just for clocking in?) still hasn't
>come up with a utility that will copy the BIOS upgrade to a CD or a USB
>stick ? Or maybe they have such a utility and I was just too dumb to find
>it.
>9. OK. I've had my little rant for the morning.
>10. So - to get back to the question - the only solution is to use a
>bootable CD or USB stick ?
>
>Varuna
>
>
>
>

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