Hi I have a Dell Studio 15(1555) laptop purchased long back around 2009 Oct. I have bricked my laptop will trying to update the BIOS A13. The computer wont boot up. The light wont power up. I followed the procedures mentioned in the forum for recovery for Dell Studio Laptops. Created Crisis Disk in my pen drive. Pressing the end key inserted the power, ofcourse after removing the battery. But the fans moves battery light turns up red. I kept it like that for about half an hour; but fruitless. So please I request you all saviors to save my laptop form dying. As I took it to the Customer care dell they said that they cannot help me as my system is old and the local shops need about a week to understand the problem. So I am in a dire need of your guidance please help me. Thanks In Advance for your support
When the battery indicator/light turn red, that means BIOS recovery mode is activated. What you can do right now is try using different/another USB pen drive. Did you create the Crisis Disk in Windows XP? If you create Crisis Disk in Windows Vista or 7 or 8, it will not create correct Crisis Disk.
i have created crisis disk in windows xp desktop. i have tried two different pendrive of same company. so please help
Hi!! thanks a lot man! I finally start my laptop...or almost XD Now I have a hdd password...i suppose that this is an auto defense from my laptop or something...because I never had password for it before... Thanks for the help!
Thanks guys for this post but I cannot recover my laptop so I am taking my laptop to the local shop for repair God bless and pray that for my dear old laptop.
Afternoon guys,hope you can help, ive tried following the guide but got lost, basically tried updating my Toshiba c660-119 bios two days ago,it froze went into meltdown so had to turn off. Now it powers,fan comes on,dvd drive works. leds on.it detects ram as it beeps once)think im correct..? no screen. basically ive downloaded the right bios now onto another pc.ive got the hp tool and minidos.also got phoenix crisis etc i need to flash the bios on a usb or dvd drive though as i have no floppy. Any idea how this can be done which files do i need to put on the drive,ive got the bios download and extracted from toshiba etc. ill be honest if u could noobproof itd be helpful,ive looked through so much info and still no closer to figuring it out. The stage im at is..i have all the files,just unsure how to execute,hope someone can help want my laptop back working lol
from what i know some toshibas use ` as bios recovery key. creatte CRISDISK in win xp or it wont work if made with vista or 7!!. sometimes u have to use usb floppy not flash stick. c660 i think is ok with flash stick. filename should be BIOS.WPH or BIOS.ROM with CRISDISK
I need some help. My Gateway P-6860FX laptop is infected with a bios virus. I had my bios locked so it couldn't start windows. Something over rode my bios password and took over the bios and infected windows. I can get into bios using User level password but most options are greyed/grayed out blocking me out of choosing to go back to default cmos settings. I took out the cmos battery and left it out over night but I'm still locked out of being able to go back to default settings and User level password is still there. I upgraded the bios but I'm still locked out of bios major settings. The links in first post are dead and there's over 100 posts to go through, can anyone help? I downloaded a crisis tool from somewhere but don't know how to correctly use it with gateway laptop. Start the crisis recovery key press method. I have the most recent bios as well just need to clean out the bios as well and whatever is blocking me out of the admin area of bios. Thanks in advance.
Try different brand then. It should work. I use Kingston DataTraveler 2/4GB to recover my Dell Studio 1557. Might work on your 1555.
Probook 4520s Good morning all. We've got an HP Probook 4520s that failed a bios update and is now a brick. Research indicates this seems an incredibly common problem in this model. Update said it was successful, laptop rebooted, and now its just a black screen when you power it up. I've found this procedure and some variations of it in this thread and elsewhere: 1. Get a USB memory stick that is <= 4GB and format it to FAT (FAT16) in windows. (It doesn't work to use a larger memory stick formatted to FAT, or a memory stick formatted to FAT32) 2. Make this directory structure on the USB memory: \HEWLETT-PACKARD\BIOS\CURRENT\ 3. Download the Softpack with the BIOS update for your system from the HP website. Extract the spxxxxx.exe with winrar or a similar software, or run the program and look in the C:\SWSetup\spxxxxx\Rompaq\ directory for a file called 68XXX.bin (XXX differs on different systems). 4. Copy 68XXX.bin into the \HEWLETT-PACKARD\BIOS\CURRENT\ directory on the USB memory. 5. Open the archive C:\SWSetup\spxxxxx\Rom.cab and extract efibios.sig to the \HEWLETT-PACKARD\BIOS\CURRENT\ directory. Rename efibios.sig to 68XXX.sig (replace XXX with the same letters as in your 68XXX.bin). 6. Insert the USB memory stick into a USB port on your computer. While pressing Win+B, power up the system. 7. The Caps lock led will flash continously, and the computer will read the file from the USB stick. 8. In under a minute the system will shut down. Remove the USB stick. The system will power up again and immediatly shut down. The system will power up again, and you will be greeted with a screen that says the your BIOS was recovered.' No joy with this technique. I've also tried using the BIN renamed after being extracted from the .cab file but still no joy. There are several people upthread with this model but no resolutions at all. There does not yet seem to be a reliable recovery method for this model beyond motherboard replacement! Any suggestions?
Thanks for the followup. The bin image and signature file total more than 2.5mb, no can do. On the procedure described above, I do see the described behavior with the caps-lock led blinking and the USB drive blinks as well, just the final important step of showing that the BIOS was recovered never happens. Seems like something isn't quite right, or isn't quite what the system is expecting. I've tried a few times to try ruling out user error.
Found the other post I'd been referencing, but I'm not allowed to link it. This is as close as I can get forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/870-Bios-Recovery-Procedures?p=548070&viewfull=1#post548070 I've done both variations to the same result. Caps lock flashes, the stick flashes, the system shuts down, comes back up, the stick flashes, the system restarts and I'm bricked at a black screen still.
Hi, I've a motion CL900 tablet which I turned to a brick yesterday. Flashing worked OK, but now the tablet only shows me the green power LED - no fan, no screen no...nothing. Its an Insyde BIOS (no link due forum restrictions - version a07 can be found on the motion website) With the phoenixtool I've got the filename: "PVX00IA32.F?" - renamed the BIOS file to PVX00IA32.FD (and later to BIOS.*, PVX0.* and PVX00L02.* (found on the motherboard) with extension FD, BIN and ROM) Put everything on USB-pen... added later a path similiar to HP: \MOTION\BIOS\CURRENT... Removed the battery from the tablet and startet with several USB sticks... Some USB LEDs turn on and stay on Some LEDs turn on and after 3-5secs turn off and some will not show any reaction... I use now the mid (seems to be any life ;-) But the biggest problem: The tablet has NO switches except the power button and only ONE USB Port (Docking station has 3, but they will not react in any way) - so I put an USB Hub to the build-in port and attached a keyboard and tried WIN-B, WIN-R, WIN-F, CTRL-END... But nothing worked... Has someone any idea, how I can start the recovery process? I think there is something, because motion writes about "Fix BIOS crisis recovery EEPROM sync issue." in the A06-BIOS Version Thanx Andreas
\MOTION\BIOS\CURRENT this is HP only in folders. most bios recovery read from root of usb. try Fn ESC with no power cord.. plug in power still holding Fn ESC then press power. ================================================= GS-Help.. u might have bad ram stick or bad motherboard chipset.
OK - the HP-path was just a frustrated action ;-) I attached a keyboard with a FN Key - may be it would work, but nothing. Problem is, that every keyboard (have 4 different) which I tried, did not show any action (NUM, Scrolllock LEDs all off and no way to activate them) - so I think keyboard is the wrong way. I also tried a mouse, same thing. I will now try some combinations on the multitouchdisplay (is normaly allready active on startup)... Still waiting for an answer from motion-computer - this should really be my last exotic hardware I bought, but ... ;-) Andreas
That's my conclusion too, given that multiple procedures are unsuccessful and the problem happened after the reboot following what was declared a successful flashing. The end user has elected to upgrade the laptop so I'll have more opportunity to poke around with the brick once data is migrated. Thanks for trying. Perhaps this will be useful to some other unfortunate googler down the road.
use older versions of bios.. not all do recover. ============================================ anju if its a desktop then Fn Esc is for laptops... is this a laptop with windows ?? aka touchscreen tablet laptop.
No - its just a tablet with two buttons and no keyboard. At least I'm able to start the fan. I found another key which I never regognized (searched ebay for spareparts ;-) Pressing Power and this "Security Home Button" key will turn on the fan, but no reaction from USB-pen. I will try an older BIOS on USB and on SD-card. Andreas Everything above didn't work but surprise: I found a third switch - the control Led for battery can be pressed - I never did this... I think starting up the fan would be the right way - but there is no action on the USB-pen. And Motion didn't answer... :-(