BIOS upgrading without windows

Recently I have purchased HP Pavilion g6-1118tx Notebook PC. I swiched it from windows 7 to linux(ubuntu).
But for each bootup i getting "thermal shutdown occured,..bla bla...". I really disappointed to see this issue from world class vendor like hp. i found BIOS upgradation will solve this issue, but BIOS update is only avilable in windows 7 executable.
It is really annoying and un acceptable. I need proper answer from hp regarding this. Else i need replacement.
regards
Arun

Hi, Arun:
Unfortunately, HP is not going to do a thing regarding your request as they only support your notebook for Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit.
You elected to install Linux, which is your prerogative, but that isn't HP's problem.
The BIOS flashes are only writtten for windows 7, and even if you try to extract the actual flash files out of the download, I don't think they will work.
If you want to update the BIOS, you will need to reinstall the supported operating system.
Regards,
Paul

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first of all, I'm french so my english may not be perfect, sorry about that.
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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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