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‎12-12-2023 08:01 PM

HP Recommended
Product: EliteBook 8740W

Iaplogize in advance if  put this into the wrong section I have no clue where something like this regaurdingthe BIOS wouldgo

 

I have an Peltebook 8740w that I have been using againfor a little bit but i've encountered some problems after a bios update. I updated the BIOS to F.60 [the latest bios for this laptop] to try to make my brightness keys work however it has made everything so much worse.

After the BIOS update these problems have occured:

-sometimes cerain key presses wont register anmore

-the touchpad randomly freezes for a split second

 

Tese problems are very annoying an im wonderingif anyone can help me solve these?

-I've tried rolling back te bios immiditall after the update however it didnt work

afterthis I was unable to boot into windows anymore it would just freeze on a black screen befre the windows logo would display

-I tried rolling back the bios again however it didnt work just giving me a continuously blinking caps lock light

-I then grabbed ifferent ssd with windows 10 on it and i got the laptop to boot to windows10 andtried to update the bios to F.20 mbu couldnt because HP doesnt letyou do that

-I the tried to creat a recovery usbhowever the BIOS file from HP is broken and doesnt let me create a recovery usb

-I then managed to get the F.60 bios updated to work in the F.20 one and created a recovery USB however that didnt work either and Iwoud just get stuck on a black scren with a blinking caps lock light

-I even tried putting th laptop's original GPUback in and the laptop doesnt give me a blinking caps lock light when trying toget into the HP bios updater/recovery bu instead just boots rigt into windows 10.

 

This BIOS updated [which i've reinstalled 3 times] seems to hate my laptop a lot, but all I want is for keyboard and trackpad to work properly so Ican actually still use this laptop since i spent 500 dollars on upgrades for it

Is there anything I havent tried yet to get the old BIOS to flash back onto this laptop without hving to buy one of those manual bios chp flashers that dont understand

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