Good Day! I think I bricked my laptop because of a bad BIOS update. Is it possible that the BIOS update damage my motherboard permanently?. I tried the crisis recovery tools with a thumb drive, though I was unsuccessful, the laptop detects the thumb drive and reads its. Does that mean that my motherboard is still fine?. Also I tried to remove all the RAMs just to check if the laptop would detect it, and it did. Could a broken motherboard do this things?
a little tip I'm not sure if this was already stressed in the previous replies, but I found this in the hp site. For those who are looking to try this using a thumb drive, you should use a wincris.exe that is 1.0.0.4 version for it to work. It took me 3 days to stumble upon this simple detail, and now I got my laptop going. *sorry I forgot where I downloaded the 1.0.0.4 version of wincris but I remembered I just googled that, so I think you guys can easily find it.
acer 4741g BIOS recovery Hi guys, pretty much exact same problem for me I'm reading about mainly here. Sorry about the quite long post but I think it's important I provide as much specific information as possible. I went to official acer website to update drivers, thought there was an update for my BIOS and used that to flash - didn't realise it was for same model notebook as mine but slightly different graphics card. So yeah my computer force restarted, with long beep two short beeps, and continuous black screen. I read that someone fixed it on their 5536g just using a usb drive and not pressing anything so I've been trying the method posted by spkleader: basically he posted 'phoenix crisys disk' link, copy original BIOS for your computer into the crisys folder and rename wph name to bios.wph, run winsys targetting a usb stick. With the original BIOS firstly I couldn't find the exact original so I tried the closest I could find on the site 'supports i5 430n' whereas I have i5 430m. The others I don't think I can use as they are to support other graphics cards to mine (I have GT 320m) I downloaded that and just copied the DOS files over (didn't think I need the win exe file also) into the folder and renamed the wph file and ran wincris onto a 250mb usb stick. <br><br>I have the battery plugged in now with ACadapter, put usb in and held 'function esc' to get into BIOS recovery, turned on and my USB light flickered rapidly, then stayed on, i let go of function esc at this point, the light went off for 5 seconds then on and continued like this. I waited 20 minutes and the computer has not turned itself off yet like they said it would. So basically I guess I could be doing a few things wrong here, do u think that BIOS would be ok to use? do i have to press function escape, and if so what exact time should i let them go? (hard to tell with no screen lol) Do I have to use a usb floppy drive to do this? (I didn't think so cos that guy on the other forum managed to)<br><br>Any help would be great, I've been searching for hours on a clear solution even talking to Acer (but they don't support using crysis disk) If you need me to provide more details (like maybe i could email you to the thread spkleader posted on) please let me know thanks bless you
Acer Aspire 4741, 4741G, 4741Z & 4741ZG are using the same BIOS. Look like you successfully triggered the BIOS recover, so the CRISIS disk is created correctly. The indicator on the USB flash drive keep flashing in constant interval indicating it try to locate the BIOS file. Are you sure you copy the BIOS file from: BIOS_Acer_1.28_Windows\DOS\BIOS\ & filename is JE40128.WPH? Did you rename JE40128.WPH to BIOS.WPH?
Firstly thanks heaps for your reply. Yeah I did try the 1.28 BIOS copying that file and renaming, I also copied all the other files in the DOS folder into the crisys disk folder - should have I done that? i'm pretty sure that's not the 1.28 is not the right BIOS for me because it says that one is to support the GT540m graphics card, and i have a GT 320m, also it was released on the website a month after I bought my laptop. I bought my laptop on the 5th of september checking my reciept so I'm guessing it's default BIOS version is 1.18 that was put on the website 26th of July would you agree? Just wanna know I'm dealing with the right BIOS and go from there cheers, i think im almost there with your help
I have a Toshiba Satellite A355D-S6887 laptop that failed to complete a BIOS update via WinFlash v1.80 provided by Toshiba downloads page. I have been grinding my gears trying to get this thing back to life. The flash was NOT done by me, I have aquired the laptop after the fact. I have tried all the methods with a USB thumb drive & also floppy (ecluding the INSYDE bios recovery method). Any chance this laptop is running this kind of bios? I'm at my whits end here. Extra info: I can get the USB and flobby to read using all methods pretty much w/ FN+B. Floppy reads fast and furious at first then just gives a consistent on, off, on, off activity light. I have waited for up to 20 mins for it to complete but it never powers down. Manual power down does not give a bios screen during boot after a reflash either. I'm also not getting any "beeps" as others have described. I feel like I'm so close yet so far... Can someone shed some light for me plz?!
I am gonna post and hope someone might be able to assist me. I attempted to flash an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with a modded v5005 bios. It appeared to flash fine however now that PC won't boot. There is no post message or anything. I removed memory HDDs and DVD drive and don't even get an error beep. I have read up on Asus Crash Free Bios that supposedly will allow for easy recovery from a bad flash. However I have been unsuccessful attempting this process. During the flash of the 5005 bios it saved the old bios which I burned to a CD and loaded to a USB flash drive and renamed to M2NPV-VM.BIN, which supposedly CFB should autoload and flash. But again this was unsuccessful. Can anyone assist me here. Thanks in advance.
Hi, Can you provide me pictures of the "chip locations", where can i buy a new EEPROM, I couldn't find it, or how can I reprogram it. Thank you
upgrade bios failure ! need help ! After i flash bios, my lenovo S12(VIA nano) cannt work anymore. When power up, the netbook just beep( 1 long 2 short) with black monitor. Any body have 20CN23WW.WPH ? Please send message to me. thanks.
Need help please! I have a Toshiba PSC20E (SATELLITE C660D-158) with a failed flash.I can get into recovery mode by pressing Fn+B (it reads from USB pendrive) but I don't know what file from the downloaded BIOS ( support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/bios-20110322165037.zip ) should I use...bios.rom or ec.rom...uma or dis directory ...(to be renamed to AMIBOOT.ROM) Thanks in advance.
Inspiron 1564 i am having problem in create hdr file. i dont know where to get wph file....... can any 1 help?
from which directory DIS or UMA?...cause when you unpack the original toshiba archive you have these 2 directories(DIS&UMA) each one with bios.rom and ec.rom and one .exe
Probably DIS & UMA are two sub-model. I'm guessing DIS is the same model but with discrete GPU (ATI/Nvidia), while UMA is for the same model but with Intel GPU. I'm just guessing.
tried everything...bios.rom renamed AMIBOOT.ROM from both DIS&UMA.....AMIBOOT.ROM backup bios from a friend with same laptop model (extracted with afudos /o)...the laptop reads the pen drive for a while(holding Fn+R, no battery,and plug in power)...and then stops reading...no more activity just the fan and black screen
Toshiba Satellite C660D PSC20E Toshiba Satellite C660D PSC20E use AMI EFI. According to andyp's Phoenix SLIC Mod tool, recovery filename is AMIBOOT.ROM. So need to rename BIOS.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM. Which one (DIS or UMA)? I don't know. The BIOS recovery procedure probably simple like this:- Put AMIBOOT.ROM in USB flash drive (FAT32). Plugged in the USB flash drive to your notebook. Make sure notebook in power off state. Removed the battery. Also unplugged the AC adapter. Known hotkey to trigger BIOS recovery on Toshiba Satellite is Fn+B. So, press Fn+B while plugging in the AC adapter & press the power button. (You still need to press Fn+B when you press the power button) Let it run for 5 minutes (until CPU fan stop or shutdown or reboot???) Power off notebook & then power on it again. See whether BIOS recovered successfully or not. EDIT: UMA probably for model with integrated GPU (Intel/ATI). DIS is for model with discrete GPU (ATI/Nvidia).
Can you give me the backup BIOS? I can compare it with BIOS file from Toshiba, to know which one is the correct one for your notebook.