JonnyChimpo wrote:Thanks for checking. If it matters, I attempted jumpers on E14 and E1 when I did the Bios update, but Boot Block still shows 2011.
Having the newer 2013 bootblock is pretty much irrelevant with regard to the problem you are experiencing.
And you are correct - placing jumpers to update the boot block does not work, even though this is precisly the reason they are on the board. Having looked into this the problem is that the boot block area was write protected by HP at the chip programming stage. It seems that this was not thought through on HP part - they included the necessary jumpers on the board and provided the necessary microcode updates in the v 3.50 bios but then it transpired that actioning this update was not possible since write protection at the bios chip level has been enabled for this region.
Updating the boot block is still possible, but not without an external programmer.
