paulmalone_54 wrote:
> HELP! I've had 2 computers take Windows updates in the last week
> that had problems. Both have SP2 and have avoided taking IE7 until
> the bugs are gone. The HP 8674D with critical data asked to take
> updates during shutdown so I okayed it and walked away. When I went
> to fire it up it's got nothing but flashing CDRW and DVD drives
> with fans running. No floppy either. I'll assume it nuked the BIOS.
> Same thing with an IBM Netvista 6793-KYU. Same exact thing except it
> happened over the last 2 days.
> Anyone got a 20/20 hindsight on this one?
Well - I doubt it nuked the BIOS.
Unplug all external devices.
Reboot - before it ever gets as far as going into Windows - or it would -
try to get into the system BIOS.
HP... Is that F2? Or is that Dell? Is F1 HP's key for entering into the
system BIOS?
Whatever the key is - when you turn on the computer - tap it once every
second.
Can you get into the BIOS?
Updates have not been released since mid-December... Did you get November's
updates and all those before that previously - or might these machines be
getting multiple months of updates? (Trying to narrow the field of
updates.)
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