nothing happens, just ctrl + home gives a response and starts flashing pendrive. The effect is independent of the file's contents. Even as the file is not present on the flash drive, it looks as if it was not appropriate file name.
Well I don't know if it matters but the filename for recovery is N53SV.bin, not N53SV.BIN (capital letters). You can make some copies of it and try different names at once. Be sure all the files are at root directory... Names: N53SV.bin, N53SV.BIN, N53SV.fd, N53SV.FD, N53SVAS.209, N53SVAS.bin, N53SVAS.BIN, N53SVAS.FD, N53SVAS.fd, N53S.bin, N53S.fd (suffix: .bin or .fd or original.....filname: some letters of the original one. It should be .bin and the first 5 letters here though.) Alternatively try to burn them on CD since the recovery should also work from CD.... I don't have tools atm to check for the recovery filenames, but I think there is only one...detected by andyP's mod tool...
Sorry guys but choosing the eMachine SLIC didn't change anything - still same results in booting OS/unable to flash after flashing modded BIOS (one created myself and Serg008's). I know that there are 2 Versions of BIOS but as there has been v1.29 before and i couldn't find s.t. about special edition on Laptop/BIOS/Documentation i guess 1.35 is ok. EDIT: YENs mod below worked!
first of all i updated the normal bios from hp website then i used hp dmi toolkit to change the os sku to win7 but after restart i found the bios is still giving win vista then i downloaded the bios you gave , then update it, but because still not activated i read the rw report and posted it here but i read some where that if i changed the pcid it will work but i cannot find a working one "it is 17 letters in length"