Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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I tried to upgrade my BIOS on my HP 15-f033wm Notebook PC computer and guess what happened? It’s not letting me boot up my computer to Windows at all! Even though Windows is perfectly fine, the BIOS is definitely NOT fine.
I tried recovering the BIOS from the conflicting F.42 upgrade and downgraded my BIOS to F.41 but yet, it’s been stuck on this black screen with no activity from the hard drive and the hard drive is perfectly fine but for the BIOS? It's not fine.
This is why I've been off of YouTube since yesterday night. I've been trying to recover my HP 15-f033wm Notebook PC's BIOS after, for some reason, does want to boot after updating the BIOS, but it does turn on with no beep error codes (except for one beep due to my BIOS password being set) and I've spent like three full days trying to recover the BIOS via the hard drive and got nothing even though the BIOS has been recovered successfully with no issues whatsoever.

I tried booting off of my USB flash drive but got nowhere.... I think my computer's bricked over here and I'm in need of a computer technician to help me on this frustrating and very troubling problem.

Anyway, for those that love specs, here's my computer's specifications below:

* Intel HD Graphics
* 4GB Samsung SODIMM DDR3–1333 RAM
* Intel Celeron processor clocked in at 2.16 GHz
* 500GB Western Digital HDD
* 2 USB 2.0 ports
* 1 USB 3.0 port
* 1 HDMI port
* 1 Ethernet port
* 1 DVD/CD burnable disk drive
* Logitech M385 wireless mouse
* Amazon Basics external keyboard
* Sony headphones for private listening
* BIOS: InsydeFlash F.41

I even went back and downgraded the BIOS from F.42 to F.41 but nothing happened, so I pretty much have a bricked computer over here, I think and yes, I checked the hard drive a few days ago for bad sectors and found none.
In the meantime, I just have my secondary computer out which has utterly nothing on it except for Waterfox.

No photos, no videos, documents, settings, programs, nothing at all on the second computer on my jerry-rigged laptop stand while my main primary computer is MOST likely kaput, or I could be doing something wrong here…
I’m starting to really wish I had a professional computer repair technician on speed dial over here so I don’t have to suffer through this. I got stuff on that computer that hasn’t been backed up yet!!!

#HPNotebookComputerProblems :(

Any tech help will be highly appreciated!