SMC.BIN Not working

[vertigodown]

I am seriously at the end of my tether here. I have had 3 SMC.BIN files from HP and nothing I do seems to get it to work. I have managed to insert a standard hard drive and install windows 10 to the SSD and boot from that. I still need to get in to the bios but nothing I do will get the SMC to work.

I have renamed the file smc.bin and put it on a few usb sticks all formatted to fat 32. I have even tried the partion way and still nothing.

All I get is a flashing screen, then a message that says Initializing link then media test failure check cable and exiting intel boot agent.

This is really doing my head in. What are the reason the SMC might not be working? I have followed every step that HP says to do also watched videos. Is their something I am missing?

Cheers.

[kevin-t]

@vertigodown

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