P6240f ipiel-la3 bios update

[gypsy5171]

Product Name:  NY550AA-ABA p6240f

Serial Number:  [edited]

Product Number:  NY550AA#ABA

Operating System:  Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1

Microprocessor:  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q8300  @ 2.50GHz

System Board:  Eureka3 1.02

System Bios:  5.09  

My hard drive crashed and I am rebuilding my system from scratch. I figured I would look at updating the BIOS for two reasons.

First, the bios does not recognize when I set the DVD/CD as the first device to check when booting. I tried every way I could, but it always goes to the hard drive first. I have to remove the hard drive completely from the BIOS or disconnect it internally to get it to boot from the DVD/CD.

Second, I thought it just made sense to get everything up to date since I’m doing a clean install of everything.

I searched the web and this forum and found four different files for updating the BIOS. I tried all four and none of them work. I get one of two error messages:

“Your system does not meet the minimum requirements for this update. Update has been cancelled. (9998)” My assumption on this is that I have the incorrect version of windows.

“Incorrect BIOS for your system (253). Please download patch again. If error continues, contact support.”

I have tried four different .exe files.

SP43102.exe, SP4634.exe, SP56794.exe and SP**794.exe (don’t know the exact name on this one)

I’m not a total geek, but I’m familiar enough to read up on it and then follow instructions. I’m also dangerous enough that at 3 AM Ill try anything (started the rebuild a few times because of this ill advised approach).

I’ve spent hours trying to find a solution on the internet, but these were the only ones I could find. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t want to imply I’m getting frustrated, but my next post might answer the question “Can PC’s fly”

Thanks

[Nuccii]

Reset the BIOS back to Defaults.

If your problem is not solved look at this about Flashing the BIOS

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00007682

[lasvegaswireman]

There are no BIOS updates available for your computer listed on the HP Pavilion p6240f Desktop PC Drivers page. Your computer uses an IPIEL-LA3 (Eureka3) motherboard. HP has a series of motherboards with the IPIEL-LA/LA3 name and the updates you are trying to install are not valid for your computer.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

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[gypsy5171]

Thank you for your response. The page I landed on looks different than the one on the link you sent, but had similar information. They don't list a BIOS upgrade for my pc.

[gypsy5171]

Thanks.

Are there any other solutions to getting my BIOS to go to the DVD/CD first on bootup?

One of the BIOS updates that are for that Motherboard, but not my version, addresses and fixes the issue. I'm assuming that it is a general problem with some versions of this Motherboard.

[gypsy5171]

I noticed that eric-g edited my post and removed the serial number. Thanks Eric.

Should I not include this info in future posts?