Recent content by HerefordBull

I had a quick read of the Sure Start white paper and if Sure Start does everything it claims then I'm amazed that my BIOS is bricked. Anyway I don't want to derail the thread anymore so I'll just suggest a warning for HP users to be added on the first page of the OP. If my bricked mobo can act...

Carried out the PWSD jumper reset and that gave me a new message: The HP Endpoint Security Controller settings have been recovered to their default state But alas, it's still in perpetual boot

I used the desktop procedure with the 'b' key. The results of which I posted earlier. Also tried it with the 'v' key but nothing happens at all.

Thanks. My PC is up to date with Microsoft updates and the BIOS I used for the repair drive from HP is dated December 2025. As for firmware updates, I have no way of entering the BIOS or any setting/recovery as previously explained. I really don't see how I can repair this mobo. Edit: Seems I...

Well I did the 30 minutes short circuit for the CMOS and used the CMOS reset button. That did yield a result of sorts but I was too slow to take a photo of the message, it was something along the lines of 'time error... factory default settings applied' so that seemed to work as far as a CMOS...

Have to admit I've never heard of shorting the terminals, I just drained the power and took the battery out for 5-10 minutes then replaced it. I'll give that a try now. Thanks.

Already tried the CMOS battery. When I start it I get the HP logo and in the bottom left of the screen it says 'entering set up menu' but then the pc just shuts down.

I guess this reply was for me. There's no way of getting into the BIOS, it's bricked. I've tried all the F keys and esc. Finally managed to format a usb with Fat32 and get the HP BIOS flash installed onto it but that doesn't work either. Also tried some other UEFI repair thing from HP and that...

Thank you. Tried f10, f2, f8 and esc, none of them work. Just waiting for my old tower to update then I'll try the HP bios software again. If that doesn't work I'll try Rufus

Thank you, I have tried that on my laptop but the HP bios software fails to format the usb and won't let me proceed to make the usb drive. I'm currently setting up an old tower to see if I can get it to work on that. I seem to remember that on older HP models there was a way to enter the bios by...

Hello and thanks for letting me join the forum. My apologies if I have skipped the formal introductions but I have a rather pressing problem. I followed the instructions in the OP, ran the first Powershell command and that confirmed I did not have the 2023 files. so I ran the second Powershell...