Sure you install windows on it then install the bios then you blow away
wondows again.  I don't know the hp magic to update bios'.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Todd Alan Smith wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Epidemic SomeGuy
> <epidemic.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Or maybe the bios is so badly broken that the "real fix" for this
> > would be in the form of a bios-update from HP?
> > I'll look for that too.
> 
> There is a BIOS update for the 786F6 systems (which is what I have):
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/2gxtyu6
> 
> Intuitive update instructions are here:
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/27gfryg
> 
> The thing is... it doesn't list a BIOS update for Linux. This must be
> due to the linuxbios that bofh referred to, no? For Windows 7, it just
> lists the Business Desktops BIOS Utilities (ver. 4.02 Rev. A). For
> Windows XP Pro and all Windows Vista variations, it lists both the
> Business Desktops BIOS Utilities (ver. 4.02 Rev. A) and the HP Compaq
> Business Desktop System BIOS - 786F6 BIOS (ver. 3.10 Rev. A).  For
> Windows 2000, it lists just the 3.10 update. My machine actually
> shipped with Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, with a BIOS
> version of 01.09. I'm thinking I ought to try the 3.10 update.
> 
> Thoughts? Marco?