I booted my Windows 10 laptop with a Ubuntu USB Key drive and it's done something awful to the BIOS / UEFI.
Entering sleep or shutting it down causes it to enter an unresponsive state.
Sometimes the power LED by the charger port will flash orange / white.
Sometimes the Caps Lock and Num Lock LEDs will flash.
After some time it will boot with the following message
"Shared SPI Flash was Recovered from the Embedded Controller Flash"
and will then boot normally.
I have also recieved the following other error recovery screens
"Network Controller Configuration Restore"
and
"EC MPM and System MPM Mismatch"
and
"BIOS Recovery via Local Media"
and
"Product Information Not Valid"
and
"Warning : This machine is not in a commited state".
If I run the HP System Info tool in Windows, the "Software Build Number" and "Feature Byte" are both missing.
The SKU, Serial Number and UUID are present.
The battery and the LCD have been replaced with eBay sourced OEM models which worked fine up until the Ubuntu Disaster.
My question is how should I proceed?
What I've Done :
I have aquired a number of BIOS images and tools from this forum.
I have made a USB key with HP PC Hardware Diagnostics tool and tested the hardware, which is all fine.
Should I try flashing the BIOS with one of these images?
Does a Feature Byte exist for this machine or is that a red herring?
Similarly is the lack of Build ID
I have the PCID if that's helpful.
I hope this makes sense...it's all very confusing.
Entering sleep or shutting it down causes it to enter an unresponsive state.
Sometimes the power LED by the charger port will flash orange / white.
Sometimes the Caps Lock and Num Lock LEDs will flash.
After some time it will boot with the following message
"Shared SPI Flash was Recovered from the Embedded Controller Flash"
and will then boot normally.
I have also recieved the following other error recovery screens
"Network Controller Configuration Restore"
and
"EC MPM and System MPM Mismatch"
and
"BIOS Recovery via Local Media"
and
"Product Information Not Valid"
and
"Warning : This machine is not in a commited state".
If I run the HP System Info tool in Windows, the "Software Build Number" and "Feature Byte" are both missing.
The SKU, Serial Number and UUID are present.
The battery and the LCD have been replaced with eBay sourced OEM models which worked fine up until the Ubuntu Disaster.
My question is how should I proceed?
What I've Done :
I have aquired a number of BIOS images and tools from this forum.
I have made a USB key with HP PC Hardware Diagnostics tool and tested the hardware, which is all fine.
Should I try flashing the BIOS with one of these images?
Does a Feature Byte exist for this machine or is that a red herring?
Similarly is the lack of Build ID
I have the PCID if that's helpful.
I hope this makes sense...it's all very confusing.
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