BIOS Updates forum

Nope and according to both HP and Microsoft this laptop is past the sell-by date so don't expect windows Vista or 7 support any time soon/at all. Too bad. I know it is past the "sell by " date. It was purchased back in 2001, so this wasn't a "recent transaction". I know all the official junk about ...

if you have any acpi option in your bios setup, try and disable that. other than that, so far not seen anyone succeed in disabling acpi during setup. That particular BIOS setup has almost no options at all in it. I tried changing the two options that you could actually change without breaking anyth...

press the F7 key when you are prompted to install storage drivers . The system does not notify you that the F7 key was pressed, but it silently disables ACPI and enables you to continue your installation. that is for XP, not windows7. Is there any type of workaround for 7? Could the startup be modi...

Right with you guys there. I just wanted to let you know you aren't alone in the search for the "0x000000A5" glitch. I've got the exact same setup as described above on an hp pavilion zt1250 laptop. If it provides any support, I am looking to solve the same thing, so don't give up on it. :) . I hadn...