sapphirescales
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This has always bugged me, but occasionally I'll get in an HP laptop that refuses to boot intermittently with the blink code of 2 (BIOS corruption) but if you repeatedly turn it off and on again maybe 5-10 times, it turns on and boots up normally. I've never been able to "fix" one of these computers by flashing the BIOS. It always ends up needing a motherboard replacement. Has anyone else seen this? If the BIOS is truly corrupted, then why does it boot sometimes and not other times and why does updating the BIOS not fix it?
I've only seen this with HP's. Makes me think it's a known issue with them that they've just never fixed (I've seen this happen on a laptop as old as 2012/2013 all the way up to this nice 2019 one I have in my shop right now). I know all about making a flash drive and recovering the BIOS that way. That NEVER seems to work (when I am able to flash the BIOS, I do it by restarting the laptop 5-10 times and running the program in Windows to flash it). Any ideas?
I've only seen this with HP's. Makes me think it's a known issue with them that they've just never fixed (I've seen this happen on a laptop as old as 2012/2013 all the way up to this nice 2019 one I have in my shop right now). I know all about making a flash drive and recovering the BIOS that way. That NEVER seems to work (when I am able to flash the BIOS, I do it by restarting the laptop 5-10 times and running the program in Windows to flash it). Any ideas?