HP Kayak XU 04xx HP Kayak XU PC Workstation Technical Reference Manual Hardwar - Page 36
BIOS Update Crisis, Recovery Procedure, Power on the computer.
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2 System Board Devices on the ISA Bus BIOS Update Crisis Recovery Procedure If, for example, during a BIOS update process, the procedure is interrupted by a power failure, and the system does not start, then you can still recover the situation of a destroyed system BIOS. However, it should be noted that during the recovery procedure, there is no image on the screen, nor access to the keyboard or mouse (only "vital" devices that are required to boot on the floppy are initialized). Follow these steps to recover the BIOS: 1 Ensure that you have created a DOS-bootable diskette. This floppy diskette contains all the recovery and system BIOS programming software (phlash.exe, platform.bin and hblxxxyy.Ful). Include the flash command in the autoexec.bat, for example: phlash /mode=3 hblxxxyy.Ful 2 Turn off the computer. Set Switch 10 to the DOWN position (=on). 3 Insert the DOS-bootable diskette. 4 Power on the computer. 5 During the recovery process, short beeps are emitted. The recover process is finished when there is a much longer beep (after approximately 1 to 2 minutes). 6 Power off the computer by pressing the power ON/OFF button (for about 5 seconds), until the ON/OFF light switches off. Set the Switch 10 to the UP position (=off). 28