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HP Experts: 2017 version How To Create Bootable USB BIOS Update?
been digging on this for a couple of hours and conclude that HP changed something in their BIOS update files, removing the Bootable Flash Utility that was there in the past. I have a HP laptop pretty dead, and the last hope is to try to force-update [replace] via Bootable USB stick - auto-run on the blind. HP has pages and videos dedicated to the process but they are wrong in today's world. There was a HP Utility for creating the USB stick, but it is not now included in the typical SP@#######.exe download as it once was, and I can find no other Utility except one for large shop replicated BIOS installs which involves editing batch files with a number of options.
So you know the story: this is a HP G4-1117dx, which had intermittent issues for months, then quit. The hard drive is fine. The system, when powered on, runs the fan, checks the optical drive, displays the LED'S at the power button and WIFI indicator, but no other evidence of life. not a hint of video, no beeps. Holding F11 or F12 produces nothing. Using the HP recommended key-sequence for recovering "last good copy" of bios fails [trying Windows-Key+V, or Windows-key+B]. Trying all this with external monitor as well as onboard produces no vid. So this is my last shot before pronouncing the MB dead.
any direction you can give is much appreciated.
EDIT: The applicable page at HP for doing this sort of recover is https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02693833
Section 3, Steps 5 through n are simply wrong. The BIOS file downloads do not have that utility built-in these days.
The bios SP file assumes it is on the system in question and the action is to do a normal bios update immediately
from the C: drive where the files are unzipped to. There is no other option.