Need to flash my bios? compaq cq62

Alright im currently working as an officemax tech and a friend asked me to fix his compaq cq62 when you power it on hard drive starts to spin and the power light comes on but the caps lock light blinks and screen stays blank. I had never seen this problem before and assumed was a bad hard drive/ corupted hard drive but did a quick internet search any way. After this I saw that instead they all say its either a bad bios or a bad mother board. hoping its the bios so im going to try and fix it that way. Never done a bios flash before so I need a little guidence. however if you have any advice or another way to correct this issue i'm all ears. (btw i have tried hard resets tried opening bios screens etc none work. its running win 7 if that helps any)

Have you identified the Blink code via this chart?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c01732674&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_us...
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