HP Pavilion a1767c Vista Home 32 bit - BIOS update failed

The unexpected happened by updating my BIOS, we lost the power.  Once the power came back, my machine was bricked.  I get the error of Checksum BIOS's Boot Blocker

I did some research and found that I could re-Flash my BIOS so I could boot to a CD or a floppy disk.  I don't have a floppy drive, and after many attempts, I learned how to create a bootable CD with PHLASH16 and the extracted from the update of the BIOS ROM file that I had downloaded from the HP support site for my computer (sp37378.exe).  The question is the program flash will not read the ROM file that I've extracted from your exe file and I can't find the original file for the BIOS on the HP website.

Am I right in thinking I can reflash my BIOS?

Can you help me to loacate the worm/Date BIOS:

Phoenix Technologies, 5.08, 12/08/2006?

Thank you for your time and help,

Ken

From another thread, I started looking for a copy of the Bios file, I found my answer.  I tried to use the tool of phoenix bios when I should have used the bios awards tool.  You can search for "BIOS for Pavilion a1767c Vista 32 bit" for the full net.  Here is the comment that has saved my pc.

Thank you all for your time and your help.

Please try the file downloaded from the following link... some details are also provided in the readme files:

https://SkyDrive.live.com/redir?RESID=1FFCCA6FE63FD77! 214 & authkey =! AOYevSziujFH8oQ

I am an employee of HP.

Kind regards
Vidya

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