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Hi There, There are currently no easy ways to update a bios through linux at all - including live cd's. Your best bet is to make a bios update USB stick (or floppy depending on the age of the computer) Here's a link to those instructions: http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-boot-usb-stick.htm Alternatively, speaking from my own experience with a similar situation, you can take the hard drive out, use it in place of the usb stick, boot from it, update your bios, and go from there.
LOL, sounds like you've got it trying to reboot from a Network or Lan first. Go back into the Bios and change the boot sequence to make the CD Drive your first boot option and the Hard Drive your second boot option.
You will want to boot from the CD to get the operating system installed. After it is installed be sure to remove the cd otherwise it will try to boot from it. Best option would be to go back into the bios and make the hard drive your first boot option after you get everything loaded.
You might be able to direct the system to boot from the cd as soon as you press the power button. Most systems will post an option to hit a certain key to get into the Bios or System Setup and a key to change the Boot order just for this one time.
When you first turn the laptop on is there a HP splash screen? Can you enter the BIOS (normally by tapping F2 or Del key). If so then it would seem the BIOS updated OK. If when you turn it on there is nothing the BIOS flash probably went wrong and the machine will need a new BIOS flash chip installed.
If you can access BIOS then it may be a simple problem that the new BIOS reverted to default values. The most common issue would be the boot mode of the HDD. Look through the BIOS menus and there should be an option for boot which will say AHCI/IDE/Compatibility. Try changing it to another option, save and exit BIOS and see if that helps. Try this for each option.
Alternatively tap F8 continuously when you turn the laptop on and see if the advanced boot menu appears, if it does try selecting Safe mode with networking.
Finally to test if the HDD is actually working, try downloading Hiren's BootCD and boot to it. Then run some HDD diagnostics to see if the HDD is operating correctly.
Hope this helps,
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Start the computer and hit the F2 key until you get into the BIOS. When in the BIOS you can see in the
Main/general page whether the hard drive is seen by the system. You
will see HDD (hard drive) CD-ROM which is the optical disk drive. If
you see the hard drive the look for boot options in the tabs. When you
get to boot options set the HDD as the first boot device, save the
settings and exit the BIOS.
Hopefully the laptop will restart and boot from the hard drive, thus into Windows.
If the hard drive is not seen in the BIOS then the hard drive has failed and needs replacing. If you have a BIOS password then start the computer hit F12 repeatedly until you see the boot option menu and choose the HDD.
Boot into safe mode then go to system restore and restore it to before the update or go to control panel and uninstall the update.
To boot into safe mode: Right after bios loads up and before windows starts loading start hitting the F8 key Choose safe mode with or without networking doesn't matter
PXE errors are generated by the network boot ROM. In other words, the boot process is attempting a network boot (your BIOS' 4th boot option), which means that your system was unable to boot from a HDD, CD-ROM, or USB device (the first 3 boot options).
PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, System won't boot:
1.Go to Bios Settings 2.Remove LAN booting from booting options...For laptop ,type "X" on the LAN booting option. 3.Save The configuration
pxe-e61 is a network boot option. If you enter the BIOS set up utility make sure network boot is not selected and that the boot options are boot from cd/dvd boot from HD.
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