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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
It's not a hardware failure that I face, the problem was caused by the software I got on HP's own site.
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Actually, it's not software in the purest sense of the word.
It's firmware.
basically you reprogrammed a ROM chip and it didn't like it. All the software on your hard drive is fine, all your hardware, technically, is workable. That one chip that got injected with code all wonky like? not so much. That chip has bad data on it and now the "brain" of your computer is damaged and doesn't even know how to be self aware or start it's boot process anymore likely.
It probably wouldn't even do you any good to try and boot up from a cd, as the bios controls that as well, basically you get one shot at it and if it fails, it's time to replace the bios chip. Just see if it's possible to have it replaced somehow.
as a general rule of thumb, updating the bios is pretty worthless unless you're somehow suffering from a current limitation (ram cap, chipset support) or bugs/stability issues.