If the manual tells you that the memory or storage drive you want to remove are soldered onto the motherboard, you can't upgrade. In most cases, you can get to the laptop's innards by removing some screws and either opening an upgrade panel or removing the entire bottom surface.

After I had done this, the laptop worked fine.The maintenance manual should tell you how to open the laptop and replace these parts.

This file is an executable, which loads the “Insyde” utility and allows you to load the new BIOS. The SOLUTION is, after getting it into Windows somehow (through this tortuous process of recovering the BIOS, which I think reloads the corrupted BIOS and doesn’t fix the problem) you have to run the sp52598.exe file which you can download from the HP website. When I pressed Win+B and then powered up, the laptop stayed on, and said “recovering BIOS” and then “Writing BIOS” and “Verifying BIOS” After this it shutdown again, BUT the next power up it came on for longer and said “BIOS recovered successfully” and SOMETIMES (about 1 in 4 times or so) booted into Windows. I called HP service and of course it was out of warranty, and after no luck over the phone, they suggested that I return it for repair for $380.Īfter several hours of internet searching, I found that pressing Win+B gets it to boot from a CD or a USB key, and restore the BIOS. When I powered up, the fan would come on for a few seconds, the screen would display the HP logo, and show ” Press ESC to enter BIOS setup ” and then shutdown, no matter what key I pressed (ESC, F8, F10).

In my case it was a G62-228 CA laptop, that failed to boot after a BIOS update.

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