Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: HP 650 Notebook - no boot with samsung SSD Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 07:59:15 -0700 Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net bVbLB4MLjfvLDSzr22AEXAvuBZjOpgH/RnVLhPRlHufynchsLB Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Vk2zS7X2FDCrzbuzRoyYwVL/lQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:2381 BJB wrote: > Mike Easter wrote: >> BJB wrote: >>> a) try to flash the latest bios? >> If you were thinking about Hiren's for its virtual miniXP >> environment, it also has quite a lot of hdd utilities -- see the >> numerous utilities in the hdd section of hiren's on this page >> http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd >> >> Questions about utilities to check ssd/s suggest Crystal which is >> on Hiren's. > > OK i DL,burn,boot hiren miniXp and try to run sp62135.exe which is > supposed to contain the last bios but it gives a lot of errors: I still think you are focusing on/ chasing/ the wrong pony. This is supposed to be about troubleshooting whether an SSD problem is hardware related or something else. You are currently focusing on trying to run a BIOS upgrade which according to HP's sketchy notes has nothing to do with SSD or hdd driver issues. Further, you are observing the SSD issues in a linux distro, but you are spending energy trying to run a BIOS upgrade program which was designed to be run on Win7-8 OS. When you had the Hiren's booted, such as Crystal Info was right there for evaluating SSD function, but you didn't say anything about anything other than that Win7-8 BIOS .exe. > GetFirmwareEnvirnomentVariable ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION!!. Here's a reminder of what the BIOS .exe is aimed at fixing and which Wins it runs - previewable http://bit.ly/1sL9drC+ > Perhaps because this sp... is supposed to run with win7 and i have hiren > mini XP. Use crystaldiskinfo; it will run. http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html A HDD/SSD utility software This page shows some crystal features including a SMART info table http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/manual-en/KeyFeatures.html > Now i feel i'm going off topic... so somebody may help or suggest > another NG where to continue to try? I think it would be useful for you to know if you have some kind of SSD hardware issue or some kind of linux related SSD issue and I don't think trying to figure out how to achieve some kind of Win7-8 environment to run a BIOS upgrade shot in the dark is going to advance your troubleshooting at all. -- Mike Easter