it says on the BIOS update page "- Fixes an intermittent issue that may result in an unexpected behavior, where the system stops responding (hangs) or a memory page fault is generated". i find it highly unlikely that both hard disks are corrupt by coincidence. i tried installing windows 7 on the earlier hard disk on this laptop but it didn't work because hard disk was corrupt. i just rechecked and it says warning in "reallocated sector count" and "current sector pending count" :/. i also saw that the hard disk was getting too hot in SMART data in disk utility on a hard disk i used earlier. I've read somewhere (can't remember where) that a common problem with HP Compaq laptops is the temperature of the motherboards gets unnecessarily hot, which i guessed was the problem with its crashes. Not sure if this is an Ubuntu problem or windows problem, hopefully i'm posting this in the right forum :P Is there some other way of installing this update, or am i missing something? The reason i am doing this is because i read that this laptop gets very hot and starts crashing after 1-2 hours of use, and that Virtualbox gets confused when trying to install Kali and thinks this is a 32bit, even if it is 64bit (not sure if this is related to the BIOS but worth a try)
If you are running this utility in Windows XP, please run as administrator." I also tried installing it with Wine and it says the same thing "InsydeFlash can not load the driver. i tried installing Windows XP in Virtualbox, but there is an error saying that i need to be admin to install, even if i am admin (typical windows :P).
i have a HP Compaq cq61-414eo () and have version BIOS version F.21, and want to update it to F.23 but don't know how to do it in Ubuntu. I have a problem installing a BIOS update.