HP: Please fix the dv5 BIOS!

[jeiworth]

ldj00, you're the man! I was able to flash my BIOS using the vista64 rescue system, thanks for the link! :-D

FYI: The included InsydeFlash.exe does not, my assumption is that it wants to run in a win32 environment and needs some dll for that in the 64bit version? However, the latest BIOS does not include the InsydeFlashx64.exe any more so I simply used one from a previous BIOS version from HP.

Resume now works, so of course also Kudos to HP

[danielr19]

Im having the same problem as jeiworth, the executable only contains the win32 version. Sadly my particular notebook doesnt have an older bios version online (dv5-1235dx) to copy InsydeFlashx64.exe.

Is it too crazy to copy an InsydeFlashx64.exe from any other WinFlash from any other nb and drop it in the 1235dx's winflash directory? 

[Elian83]

Hi,

I have the same problem with HP HDX 16. No suspend and no thermal info using Linux or Vanilla Kernel. I posted it here: http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Hardware/HP-HDX-16-BIOS-bug-suspend-thermal-info/td-p/211300 and I'm waiting an answer.

Can you guys post your DSDT code in order to check what is different between dv5 and HDX ThermalZone (TZ01)?

Thanks!

[toobaz]

Hello, everyone.

If I'm not mistaken, you should be affected - though many of you may have just not noticed it - by the issue I've reported here, and which is described in detail in the links in that post.

I mention it here both because you may simply be interested to understand why if your temptatives of looking at cpu temperature will fail under Linux, and because if you think that the "petition" here worked, you may want to request for attention on that other issue too.

Pietro

[Paul_Swanson]

Elian83 asked a while ago if someone could post the DSDT for a dv5. I'll see if I can help, however I don't know how to do this. Instructions anyone?

[Elian83]

Paul,

This is the way you dump your DSDT on Linux (extracted from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=847b7553352e6b2790daedadb9849bb2&t=1036051):

sudo apt-get install iasl
sudo cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > dsdt.dat
iasl -d dsdt.dat

You should have a file named dsdt.dsl, and that´s what I need.

Thanks for your help and interest.

Elian.

[brokenpcguy]

you guys actualy expect HP to FIX something??? AFTER YOU BOUGHT IT????

OH THATS FUNNY...