HP All-in-One - 20-c434 with corrupt BIOS

[itsmyname]

@DVDDude2020 --not every dart that I throw is a triple-20, but I keep throwing darts, and making replies.

So, is there a pattern to those "beep" noises?

Failing motherboard battery not "committing" the BIOS Update?

[DVDDude2020]

I documented the beep codes.  The first screen comes up to say that the BIOS is corrupt and to create a bootable BIOS recovery drive.  There are 8 very loud beeps.  Everyone in my house can hear these.  Then it shuts down and re-boots again.  Then it does 2 loud beeps, then 2 that are a little softer, then 2 that are loud and then 2 that are softer.  It goes through these sets of 4 beeps 5 different times then it just stays on the screen below and nothing happens.  The support link at the bottom of the page errors out when I try to go there.  My bootable USB BIOS stick is in the system and it looks like it tries to read it but it's not loading anything.  I created the recovery drive from the automated process after downloading the BIOS update from HP's site.  Not sure what else to do.  

[itsmyname]

@DVDDude2020 -- My bootable USB BIOS stick is in the system and it looks like it tries to read it but it's not loading anything.  

If your computer's BIOS was not corrupt, then booting from that stick would update the BIOS, no matter what operating system (Linux? Windows?) was installed on the disk-drive.

Have you tried copying the ".bin" and ".big" files from a folder on the USB stick into the "root" of the file-system on the USB stick, and then restarting?  Maybe, putting the files into that location will be sufficient for the "emergency BIOS recovery" to find those files.

[DVDDude2020]

Thanks for the reply.  In a previous post you mentioned copying the .bin and .sig files to the root of the flash drive.  I see that you want the .bin and .big files moved.  I can find the .bin but I don't see the .big file.  

There are three folders on the root of the flash drive and more folders under that.  Which one should I copy them from or does that matter?  

[itsmyname]

@DVDDude2020 --  I can find the .bin but I don't see the .big file.  

Oops.

Maybe "Fumble Fingers". I may have typed "big" instead of "sig" ?

Or, maybe some auto-correct changed what I typed to become "big" ???

There should only be one ".bin" file on the USB memory-stick.  So, wherever you find it, copy it to the root-directory.