In an attempt to get a modded Phoenix bios onto my Sager NP9280, I've managed to end up with a rather expensive brick. I originally had bios version 1.00.04S on my laptop and when searching for an existing mod found one for 1.00.03i. Having no luck getting a mod for the bios I had, I decided to downgrade to 1.00.03i which was successful. The modded bios seemed to install ok, but when I turn on, the computer never actually boots from a drive even after going through all the bios screens seemingly ok. I end up on a black screen, at which point I'd expect Windows to load, but nothing happens. Pressing any keys results in beeps after a few keypresses. The only thing that seems to do any different is pressing F2 which prints up "Entering setup..." again. I've tried booting from all drives available - internal, external sata, CDROM & USB key, but there is no difference. I've also tried changing every setting in the bios to no avail. Anyone had the same thing happen? Can anyone suggest how I can fix this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Thanks for your response, but you've failed to understand my problem. I cannot flash my bios as I cannot boot from any device.
you dont understand me, burn the iso on cd-rom. enter in recovery mode: push fn+b and power up your machine. after biosupdate the machine make a autoreboot,that all.
Ah, ok. I understand now. I have been reading about Phoenix bios recovery on another thread now and I've tried the above - fn+b, win+b, fn+f & fn+esc, but all to no avail. Tried with CD in drive and also bootable usb. Should this method always work for modern laptops?