BIOS recovery without windows

Hello,
first of all, I'm french so my english may not be perfect, sorry about that.
I have a problem with my Compaq Mini 110c 1030sf : a BIOS update went wrong, and windows won't boot anymore (neither XP, nor Se7en). Linux does though.
The problem is HP provides .exe BIOS files that can't run in DOS mode, but only in Windows... which of course is embarassing, as the reason I want to flash my BIOS is that Windows won't boot.
If anyone has a solution to update HP BIOS without WIndows (using a bootable disk or even Linux), I would really be grateful !

Hi:
I have extracted and zipped just the BIOS flash file .exe. Perhaps you can use it either in DOS or Linux on a bootable CD:
I don't know if this file also has to be run in Windows, but perhaps not.
Paul
Attachments:
308F0F19.zip ‏830 KB

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