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‎03-03-2018 02:33 PM - edited ‎03-03-2018 02:57 PM

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Product: HP Slimline Desktop - 260-p109
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello,

 

I recently updated my BIOS for my Simline Desktop 260 P109 with the SP84270.

As soon as the bios was properly updated and rebooted the pc would hang indefinitely in the first system screen (the one that shows the bios number date, system ram, etc.)

 

I could not go into F2, F12, ESC...so my pc was dead.

 

 

The only way to resurrect the pc was to put back my original hard drive (No ssd). I was then able to go into bios, boot windows.

I've tried many things like:

WIN+B (to restore the bios) but just kept beeping with blank screen for several minutes. (I knew the original hdd had the old bios on it)

 

After that I tried downloading a previous bios and flash it with UEFI tool from HP. Despite having the good SSID class (81B4) bios + signature file on the USB key the tool always failed stating that it's missing the signature while it was obsiously there!!! I suspect a file format change...

 

So here I am, stuck with my slow hdd while the ssd is not longer visible by the bios update.

Note: I've tried the ssd in a very OLD Dell pc and it's old bios detects it! Luckily with this I made a backup of my stuff.

 

Is it possible that the F.34 bios has issues with some SSD? Very frustrating to lose a good ssd over a bad bios update 😞

 

Please advise.

 

Regards.

 

Jon

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