- Jan 12, 2014
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I have an old HP from the Vista era that has more or less been my guinea pig for years. I have since managed to short out the CPU fan port so that every time the computer boots up and passes the bios screen, it tells me that there is a CPU fan failure and that it will be shutting down to prevent further damage to the computer. I took an old CPU fan, stripped a few wires, wired it up to a molex cable, zip-tied it to the heat sync, and it works just fine. It looks a bit retarded, but oh well. Unfortunately, the computer still won't actually boot up to the OS because it sees that the fan port has failed. I went into the bios to try to turn off hardware checks, but my version does not have the option. When I went to HP's website to get a new version, they only provide you with a Windows executable that does the work for you. I can't use this because I can't get to the OS, and even if I could, I am running Linux on this machine and I don't thin Wine can do what that executable needs to do.
Ultimately my question is, does anyone know of any way that I could update the bios in this machine, or, albeit unlikely, is there a sort of generic bios that I could use that might get the job done?
Here is a link to the motherboard on HP's website:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01357175#N55
Ultimately my question is, does anyone know of any way that I could update the bios in this machine, or, albeit unlikely, is there a sort of generic bios that I could use that might get the job done?
Here is a link to the motherboard on HP's website:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01357175#N55
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