Compaq mini 110 bricked, please help

Hi,

before I begin I will admit that this problem is my fault and I have been a pillock..

yesterday I updated the bios on my Compaq mini 110 netbook to one downloaded from here. it is now obvious to me that this bios was not actually the correct one for my version of this netbook and it will now not boot.

it displays the following message on boot up

104-Unsupported wireless network device detected.
System Halted. Remove device and restart.​

I have tried all the bios recovery methods listed on this site (well, all that I have found) but nothing seems to work.

I have got the bios file for my laptop, renamed it to AMIBOOT.ROM and placed it on a floppy disk. connected a USB FFD to the netbook with this floppy in and powered the netbook up (nothing happened other than the same error displaying. I did the same again holding CTRL + HOME on power up and this time the caps lock light flashes but the device does not access the floppy disk.

does anyone have any other suggestions I can try?

thanks in advance
kX

 

thank you thank you,,,,

tried all the options above and in the end went and bought an sd card..

bios recovery worked fine.

now just need to put SLIC 2.1 in the correct bios to flash

thanks all

 

there i go again, responding all excited and that.

it didnt work, it now just goes into a permanent boot cycle flashing the amibios logo then starting all over again.

i have also taken the wifi card out and no different.

i am wondering if my rom file is goosed. anyone know where to get another rom for my model?

its a hp compaq mini 110c-1120sa


<--- crossing my fingers

 

thanks for that, i just downloaded it, renamed the rom file to AMIBOOT.ROM, did the bios recovery but now just goes in a boot loop flashing up CMOS: Checksum bad.

any clues?

 

Hi and thanks for the response,

unfortunately I cannot do this as the system just keeps rebooting and trying to load again, the last message if flashes up very quickly is "CMOS: Checksum bad" and then reboots no matter what I press.

I have tried going back to another bios that i tried before which loads correctly but warns about an unsupported wifi card and system halts.

i guess I just need an un modified bios (in .ROM format) for this device (110c-1120SA) so I can put it all back as it was.

anyone know where I can get this, have googled my little socks off and come up with nothing

cheers

 

thanks again for the pointer. however I have tried a few backed up bios's from other similar (but not the same) model number netbooks and they all give me errors of some sort.

hopefully this is the one

cheers
kX

 

Hi,

this one also seems to load fine but when I power the device on after flashiing it just goes into a constant reboot cycle after displaying "CMOS: Checksum bad" very quickly in the post.

anyone have any clues what this might be? is it possible that there is some part of the CMOS not getting flashed during the recovery process? if this may be the case any ideas how to force it?

cheers
kX

 

found this and am going to give the further options a try now and will report back when tried

Code:

Some alternative keys that can be used to force BIOS update (only the System Block will be updated so it's quite safe):
CTRL+Home= restore missing code into system block and clear CMOS when programming went ok.
CTRL+Page Up= restore missing code into system block and clear CMOS or DMI when programming went ok.
CTRL+Page Down= restore missing code into system block and do not clear CMOS and DMI area when programming went ok
Btw: the alternative keys work only with AMIBIOS 7 or higher (so for example an AMI 6.26 BIOS can be only recovered by using CTRL+Home keys).

 

Nope no difference.

any help appreciated as my missus is badgering me for it either fixed or replaced (and i dont want to buy another of these things)

cheers
kX