Wah! Upgraded CQ45 Insyde BIOS from F.04 to F.12, now it wont boot

Anyone know what the file name should be for the crisis usb boot .FD image?

Sent off emails to HP but no replies yet

Tried the online chat, just get the [An agent will be with you shortly.] but that's as far as it gets. For landline support I'll have to wait until Monday.

The normal flash program runs on Vista. If you can't boot, you can't run Vista, so you cant re-flash. Kinda dumb no!

I believe there may be a way to flash using a USB stick, like they do with the Acers, but I have no details as to what file name is expected on the stick. I've tried guessing a few but no luck.

Okay, got it sorted

This post has been edited by Zibel: Sep 29 2008, 07:12 PM

Same on my 107TX, FYI I had some problems and took the hard drive out (booted with USB flash drive) and it still gets warm there with no hard drive ! So its not just the hard disk that's causing it.

Something else I noticed is the keyboard flexes a lot when using keys around the 'X' key area,
maybe just my big fingers
Anyone else notice this?

This post has been edited by Zibel: Oct 1 2008, 03:18 PM

HPQ0004 - That would be the HP hard drive sensor (accelerometer).

You might find it easier to use BIOS version F.11c but not sure if it would void your warranty

I changed my WD 250GB HD in my CQ45-107TX to ST 320GB so I thought I might as well show the performance differences in case someone is interested. Using VHP 32bit and Intel iaStor.sys driver 8.5, not the MS AHCI driver 1.0. Temperatures were measured using an external sensor.

The Segate ran up to 9.5C above ambient from running HDTune 7 to 8 times.


The Western Digital ran up to just 11.8C above ambient running HDTune 7 to 8 times.


Note, the HD internal sensors read about 3 to 4 degrees higher than the external sensor I used. So not much difference in the temps and you probably wouldn't notice much difference in performance most of the time.

I was hoping to get the ST 7200.3 320GB but it cost over three times the price of the 5400.5

This post has been edited by Zibel: Oct 24 2008, 01:29 AM

CQ45-107TX is Intel Pro

Don't think I'll be upgrading to 8GB just yet though.

This post has been edited by Zibel: Nov 4 2008, 01:18 AM

Anyone know what the max safe clock frequencies are for oc the 9200M GS with DDR2 ?


No answers:
maybe everyone is using integrated graphics or just not interested
OK, I'll leave the results I found here, maybe they will help someone later.




This post has been edited by Zibel: Dec 31 2008, 10:27 PM

Hey willgan, that's nice that you can select AHCI/IDE in the BIOS,I had to hack mine to get IDE but didn't notice any difference in speed between AHCI and IDE. Which drivers where you using for IDE and did you benchmark the drives or just noticed things took longer to happen under IDE?

I tried XP on my CQ45 and could adjust brightness, used Fn + F7 & F8. Worked before installing drivers even. Not sure why so many Compaqs seem to have this problem.