How to make bootable bios flash USB/CD, with WINFLASH bios?

[Snipperz]

I am Using HP DV4-1117nr

Here we go:

1) power on ur laptop.

2)u will see the black screen

3)keep ur laptop power on and close the LID of ur computer for about 20 to 30 min.

4) continue with the below step...........

Okay... here are the exact steps I took to get my dv4 back in working condition after a failed BIOS update using HP's buggy update (I just had to repeat what we all already know... 🙂 ) I have merely cut and paste 0.0's steps, so all credit goes to him and the genius over at the Acer section of this (http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=340079&page=3) forum (Bigozone)

Here is the exact Model No. and general specs: dv4-1117nr, Intel Integrated Graphics 4500, Yada-yada-yada (all I needed to determine was which BIOS update was needed for my dv4 with integrated graphics... more on that later)

1. Go to this site: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=2100&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3795301  and download the file : ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp41501-42000/sp41969.exe

2. Go to where you downloaded the file and using 7-Zip (or your tool of choice of course) unzip the contents to a folder of your choice. We'll get to this again later, so keep this folder open.

3. I used a 128MB USB Thumbdrive (the smallest I could find, since they said the smaller the better ) and reformatted as FAT (default) in Vista by right clicking the drive and clicking "format"

4. Now that my USB thumbdrive is ready, go back to the folder where you extracted the BIOS update file (The folder's still open right?)

5. If you have Integrated Intel Graphics like me, copy the 30F7F24U.FD(you have to identify u have a intel processor or AMD processor if you have intel processor the file ends with "U.FD" if u have the AMD processor the file will end with "D.FD" the overall name of the file will be diffrent for diffrent laptops bu the end will be the same eg "U.FD") to the USB drive and RENAME the file 30F7F24U.FD to 30F7.BIN

NOTE: file 30F7F24U.FD is for those with the integrated Intel 4500 video, while 30F7F24D.FD is for those with the discrete Nvida graphics. 

          copy the appropriate file to the thumb drive then on the thumb drive rename it to 30F7.BIN

The next steps are 0.0's exact steps, which I've merely numbered: (Please follow the exact procedures here and 5 minutes from now, you'll be typing a reply to this post on your currently borked dv4 🙂 )

6. Disconnect the AC adapter from the notebook.

7. Remove the battery from the notebook.

8. Inserted the USB thumb drive into one of the USB ports on the notebook.
Didn't seem to matter which one.

9. Hold down the 'Windows' Key and the 'B' key.

10. Connected the AC adapter.

11. Pressed the 'Power' button on the notebook.

12. When the LEDs came on, let go of power button and the two keys held down earlier.

13. After about 10 seconds the notebook started reading the USB thumb drive. While searching for the file the notebook beeped once a second.
The number of beeps varied, depending on how big the thumb drive was and
the number of files on the thumb drive, from just one beep to many.
If the file was not found, the notebook would reset itself and try again.

14. If the file was found then it took about 12 seconds for the notebook to load it. No beeping sounds heard during the loading time.

15. When loaded the notebook started flashing, indicated by beeps every 2 seconds. This took about 32 seconds.

16. About 5 seconds after the beeping had stopped the notebook shutdown.
BIOS worked normally thereafter.

My added last step:

17. Dance for joy!!! Hehehe 🙂 These instructions should be on the HP website, since they don't seem to bother testing the updates they push to users (Here I go again!)

Hope this helps all of us (It will help me when I mess up my BIOS Flashing again... hehehe)

Message Edited by tdk on 01-13-2009 05:32 PM

Message Edited by tdk on 01-13-2009 05:34 PM