G550 BIOS Update Fail

[Bljublju]

Hello ...

I am a proud user of Lenovo G550 laptop

No problems so far,until i tried to update BIOS.

I followed instructions by the book,but when i press install on self-extract archive,extracting starts and the i get the code: Error 5

Problem seems to be that i don't have administration privilege,although i have administrator account and it's password protected.

Program seems to start (BIOS updating software),and then the error pops-up saying phlashnt.sys driver can't be loaded and that i should reboot and log on as administrator.

My first thought was that my anti-virus software is causing this,so i turned it off and tried again,but that made no effect.I am using Free Comodo Internet Security Premium.

Deepest respect for you people from Support staff and i hope there is a solution for this.

Best regards

[MrPeter1985 Guru · Accepted solution]

Hi Bljublju Try right-clicking and select run as administrator.

[Bljublju]

I can't believe that is the solution,but it is

I always forget to use that option.

Anyway ....thx a lot for the help,appriciated

[MrPeter1985 Guru]

Not a problem, Glad it worked out for you.

[nocalalan]

I am trying to solve  a touchpad problem and want to flash the bios, have d/l proper  program, but keep getting message "not a valid win32 program"  I am running as administrator.  Ideas, suggestions

thanks

[yigit]

@ nocalalan

scan your computer for viruses and re-download the bios update.