dv9310 BIOS issues
I turned an offhand comment about how I fixed my problem into more of a step-by-step guide, in case some poor soul is in the same spot and finds me via Google.
Now that both of my machines are healing again - did I mention that a BIOS update flattened my HP dv9310? Oh, it flattened my HP all right. The new one effectively makes the computer forget that it has a video card. If you do an update and the machine starts spontaneously rebooting, try this:
- boot into Safe Mode
- go to your Device Manager and disable the NVidia card; it’s okay, you’ll still have normal VGA
- reboot in normal mode
- go to the HP support site and download an older BIOS version
- install that older BIOS
- reboot
- go to your Device Manager and re-enable the NVidia card
Anyways, the machines are reconfigured, I’ve sparked my brain with a little Python code, and now I can get back to a Perl project that’s been waiting over a month.