HP Dc7900 BIOS Flash Q&A White Paper - Page 12

What are the steps necessary to execute the HPQPswd utility? The HPQPswd application is executed in the Windows environment by selecting the HPQPswd.exe file. The initial HPQFlash application window will be presented as follows options to the user or administrator. As indicated in the image, this utility will create an encrypted password file required to execute the HPQFlash application in a silent mode on an administrative/setup password protected PC. HPQPswd utility is an application which allows the user (typically a system administrator) to create an encrypted password file which can be used with the /p option of the HPQFlash application. This option is usually used along with the /s option to perform a silent mode update of a PC BIOS on Hewlett-Packard computers which have a BIOS administrative/setup password set. The password file can be named and stored in any location. However, it is best to store the file in the same subdirectory as the HPQFlash application. The HPQFlash application silent mode will execute without user interaction. What are the steps necessary to create a bootable floppy for BIOS update? Some products contain a BIOS image that is too large to fit on a diskette, or certain models may not support a legacy floppy drive; therefore, the following information would not be applicable to those products or models. To create an MS-DOS boot disk from Windows XP Professional, the following steps can be executed: