Issues with Manufacturing Mode, Long Boot Times, and Incomplete Shutdown

[Spencetacular]

I apologize for going off the handle a little bit. I'm less frustrated at the PC Problem because they are infact what I live for, and extremely frustrated at HPs Lack of Support. You would think that if there is a precurser to a major problem, they would want to get it fixed, patched, updated, etc. 

I am all about free tech support (for the most part). 

I totally get the reference on the i7/i9 processors. They are beast. PS3, I used to belong to a hack community where we were trying to get through the "security wall" (Level 5 Layer) on the Cell Broadband Chip. 

I think i might have worked on a Packard Bell at one point in time. First PC I started tinkering with was a black and white laptop, 14.4k modem, and winamp 🙂 Havent looked back since. 

I remember those MSI Boards. They were running Foxconn chips in them if I'm not mistaken. 

With the type of error that I am getting, I've received it twice before on the All-In-One Envy's that ran 7 / 8. The first board I had to send out to get a new BIOS chip installed because Windows 10 was bricking them. 

I found a way to update the BIOS in a recovery mode by resetting the CMOS 10 Times (legit) and it would go into this said "Manufacturing Mode". After the update, no more manufacture mode, boot to Windows 10 nice and clean. 

I did attempt to roll back the driver to the original version. The motherboard will not accept it. Not through windows, not through the HP Diagnostics Menu. There is a jumper on the board, but it's odd. There is no place that states a CMOS reset. 

If it ends up being the DVD drive, I'll personally send you $100 over the $60 HP was trying to charge me. 

The thing is, it does boot. It goes to Windows. It is perfectly fine for the customer that is going to use it. They can deal with the slow start up, and Windows functions just fine as well. 

The drivers that they list tho don't do anything for the system they are tied to. Both, the Intel MEI Driver and BIOS don't want anything to do with the system they belong to. That scares me because either way I take can lead to a bricked board. Is it the Motherboard that is infact a different model then the BIOS was designed for, or did HP mess up in assigning the correct BIOS to it's support page for that product. 

I'll upload some pictures for you so you have a little bit more of an idea of what I'm working with. 

[Ripslauter]

Excellent! That’s the spirit! Don’t let it beat YOU!!!

your knowledge is astounding by the way to know exactly what I’m talking about! Kudos! 

Ill bet bet that has a hybrid  or (China clone) chip.... that’s “supposed” to use the bios and drivers as built and the support is to upgrade the bios per spec like you said, however the only bios that will work is the original shipping version which would be the level below F03 for example.

jyst out of curiosity.... you didn’t into the iOS trap did you?

ehat I mean is I’ve seen lots people flashing their bios with the “newest” bios from HP... as if it’s the same as upgrading smartphones OS 

example:

a girl absorbed 150 questions because she put F19 on her i5 365 Laptop... I knew immediately she screwed up 

I’ll tell you why, I’m only here now  because I just bought a Obelisk and it started after the born on setup with bios errors that reset to zero after a hard boot (powered down completely) it was shipped either with a bios that only accepted 8g ram (equipped with 16) or the bios was corrupt. I returned it brought home another identical one. Same thing happened!  I installed the latest bios for the Eudora board F11! It’s amazing now! So if I installed a bios F11 in a board manufactured in 2018 there’s no way she should have installed F19 in a board a generation less from 2016!!!!

i went to the site and the latest bios for her board on the laptop was F17!!!! Hence iOS trap!

and yes dvds crash and hung many PCs but thanks for the chuckle!

looking forward to the pics!