I put a blank USB flash drive in my machine and when I downloaded the SP I chose Open instead of save. The problem I had in my original post was not totally solved but I did manage to get around some of the problems you are having. Checked the signature of both softpaq's and it's valid so file hasn't been tampered with - HP just released at least 2 BIOS softpaq's that are more or less useless, unless I'm missing something? It seems like the softpaq is missing a file but then I tried downloading the previous version and similar files, no ROM.CAB. I should be able to (very easily) update the BIOS from a USB drive and I don't know why I can't. I insert the USB drive into the HP laptop and go into BIOS settings and enable the BIOS update on restart, restart and it comes up and says the update failed. I launch the utility again and it works and it builds my USB drive. Agreed, there is no ROM.CAB included in the files, where is it? Why is it missing? I then tried renaming the "68SCF.CAB" file to ROM.CAB as this looks like it's the updated BIOS file. I run the HPQFlash utility, accept the security warning and then I get following error: "The system BIOS update file (C:\SWSetup\sp77971\ROM.CAB) is missing or corrupt. So I go to the folder where the softpack contents were extracted to: C:\SWSetup\sp77971 and I've attached a screenshot of the folder contents above. Everything I've seen or read on HP's site states that an app should open giving me the ability to create a USB drive or at least provide instructions on making one myself (which has been the case with previous HP BIOS updates that I've done). It just extracts, no program opens afterwards allowing me to create a USB drive, nothing. or other folders (I've tried changing where it's extracted to) and that's it.
open the downloaded file, it extracts to a folder, usually c:\SWSetup\sp77971\. I go to the HP website, download the BIOS update (sp77971). BTW I need to update it outside of Windows, no OS installed currently.
I'm trying to update BIOS for an HP EliteBook 8460p from F.27 to F.64 and I just can't figure this one out. I've updated the BIOS for numerous different computers (including HP) numerous times and I've never come across something so frustrating. I'm experiencing a similar issue, and I'm almost at a loss of words over this.
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