Power Suspend Issue on HP EliteBook 840 G6 Notebook & 18.04 - SOLVED

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:18:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:05:16 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>>Sometimes you can make a bootable USB that will install the update,
>>but you need Windows to extract the files to create the USB key. It's
>>very annoying; some programs won't extract on another PC, as they
>>check that they are on the correct model.  
>
>If so, it might fail for a guest running in a VM host pretending to run
>on different hardware. This might not be the case for all VMs and also
>not be an issue when running wine. I don't know, but it might be worth
>testing in case the executable should check the hardware. However,it
>seems to be of no importance here, since HP does ask for information
>regarding the used hardware before downloading the Windows executable
>and since HP mentions to use another Windows computer, if the HP
>computer's Windows won't start. I doubt that the particular Windows
>executable does check the hardware at all.

PS: As already pointed out before, for way more than a decade almost all
BIOS updates, if not all, are available as binaries that are neither
Windows, Linux or any other operating system executables. Those binaries
can be downloaded with any operating system and stored to either an USB
stick, formatted with some common FAT or nowadays often even to any
other drive formatted with some common FAT. In my experiences with even
aged mobos, let alone new mobos, it is not a "common issue", but no
issue at all.