Attempt to repair BIOS, unable to boot.

So, my HP DV6 3011so has died.. For no obvious reason, no recent update, no new HW, no new SW.
It will turn on, with screen black, not even making it to BIOS.
Have only one thing to go on..
Upon attempting to start, the fans start and the Caps Lock blinks twice, then pauses, then blinks twice again --> continously
Here is what I think.. 
The BIOS is corrupted, needs to get fixed.
Soo, how am I suppose to do that when I cant boot?
-The BIOS driver is a windows application, can't boot = No windows..
BTW, tried the windows + B thingy.. no luck (several attemps).
BTSW (S for second), tried removing internal battery.. didn't work either..
Attempting to use HP Tools, but can't make the USB (since u can't, running windows 8!?)
Can a BIOS be installed externally (i.e remove the HDD, insert as external HDD into tower, install new BIOS (provided by HP)using windows application , reinsert HDD --> boot???
Will HP be able to resolve, when the BIOS is corrupted!? (I could lend a friends win7 computer and make the **bleep** USB)

Hello J-bro...
I will be sending you a private message with instructions for logging into an FTP site to get the necessary BIOS recovery files.  If the system is recoverable, this should help.
Instructions:
Format a USB flash drive (disk on key) with FAT 32 format, and give it a volume name of HP_TOOLS.
Download the zip file and extract the contents to the USB flash drive.
Power off the failing system (if it's not off already).
Connect the USB flash drive directly to one of the system's USB ports - no USB hub, port replicator, etc.
Power on the system.
The system will try to automatically recover from the recovery files on the attached storage device.  If this automatic recovery is successful, you should see a series of screens during which the recovery write and veryfiy operations are displayed.  It should take a few minutes for this, please be patient!  Yo'll be prompted to reboot on completion.
After rebooting, a message may be displayed that shows the system boot block being updated.  Upon completion of the boot block update, the system may reboot again.
At the completion of a successful recovery, the system will reboot.  During the boot process, you shouldget a message indicating tnat a BIOS recovery has occurred.
If after 60 seconds you don't see the system reboot and display a BIOS recovery message and/or see any indication of a BIOS recovery (screens as described in steps 3 – 7 above), a manual recovery should be attemped:
Power off the failing system.
Press or hold either the [[Windows][B]] keys, or all four arrow keys.
Power on the system while continuing to press or hold the keys from step 2 above.
Release the keys after 2 – 3 seconds.
The system will try to manually recover from the attached recovery files as shown above.
If neither of these works, your system BIOS is damaged to the point where normal field recovery isn't possible.  At that point, you should contact HP Service & Support in your country to have the unit serviced.
Good luck, and please let me know if this worked!
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    Okay, so first things first. The Acer Aspire Switch 10E has a 32-bit UEFI, and there is no possible way of booting an OS (live or otherwise, Linux or otherwise) which only has a 64-bit EFI image. There is no legacy BIOS on the motherboard, so (to whom it may concern), don't even bother with online tutorials that tell you to switch to legacy BIOS, as there is no way to enable it. On the other hand, a valid 32-bit EFI image will boot, even in Secure Mode, so don't bother disabling that either. In other words, there is absolutely no need to change anything in the UEFI setup in order to boot Linux, apart from adding your 32-bit EFI image to a trusted list.
    Thus, in order to boot any live Linux media, it is (TTBOMK) required to either generate a working 32-bit EFI image, or use an existing one. It took me a while to figure that out, on top of the time to figure out how to generate my own 32-bit EFI image, without breaking something. Bear with me here - this is the first machine I ever owned that features an UEFI, let alone an UEFI without legacy BIOS.
    Here is the stuff I found, which I was able to use to get to this point:
    UEFI GPT Arch Linux USB (bootx64.efi and bootia32.efi) - Taylorbyte.com
    Acer Aspire Switch 10 can't boot 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu Forums
    From Ubuntu forums, I learned about this and this, both of which have bootable 32-bit EFI images, which work on Ubuntu live. Those, however, did not work with Arch Linux, for some reason, so I generated my own EFI images from the tutorial found on Taylorbyte.com. Not absolutely sure if I did it right however, since the tutorial seemed a bit dated, but it did get me into the basics I needed.
    So, I now have a bootable USB drive with Arch Linux installed on it, with both 32-bit and 64-bit EFI images. My Acer Aspire 10E recognises the 32-bit EFI image and boots into GRUB loader from it, which asks me whether to boot into Arch Linux or Arch Linux Fallback. At this point, my keyboard still works, and I can choose either.
    However, as soon as I choose Arch Linux to boot, it complains about being unable to boot from "UUID=<my USB's UUID>", and drops me into a boot console. The cursor blinks, but the keyboard input is not recognised at all.
    I have recompiled the kernel for my live Arch USB (via makepkg -o and makepkg -e) as stated on the Ubuntu forums (setting HID_MAX_USAGE = 65536 in a certain header file in the kernel sources), but it didn't do much. The kernel still compiles, so I guess that's a plus.
    Without keyboard, I am unable to install Arch on this machine, and I'm currently stuck with this error, which I'm not sure what to make of. I have never stated any UUID's while configuring my Arch live USB, so I suppose something is detecting it automatically, thus preventing Arch from booting (no idea what it could be, though).
    So to conclude, I need help with booting Arch live USB on this machine, as well as getting keyboard to work. I have read here and there some people had some success with either Arch, Fedora or Ubuntu, and I've seen (32-bit) Debian 8.1 installer boot normally - without keyboard or wifi, though.
    Any help regarding this would be very much appreciated.
    Last edited by Wintershade (Today 12:49:37)

    Hi Marc, Thanks for the swift response.  I'm not sure if Acer (Philippines) will be able to give the necessary support since they are only selling the Switch 10 (not even Switch 11! So backwards!) . I don't mind reinstalling the file from time to time as long as it will fix the problem asap. Would it be possible to know how often you reinstalled the exe file to fix the problem?  One more thing, the only thing that's hindering on buying the Switch 12 are problems like these (since we don't have the tech support yet). Would it be possible for you to send me the fix for the keyboard problem? Thank you very much! ++ How's the experience when you are using it on your lap, let say when travelling on a plane ? Is the built stable enough that it won't stumble that easily? 

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