Hello, i have a HP Pavilion a6050.de, it has a Asus-MoBo M2N68-LA (Narra) with special HP-Bios. No afudos-tool (under DOS) was able to read/save the original BIOS-file. But i was able to save it under Windows with Winflash. After updating under Windows Vista (no other OS is possible!) with original HP-tool from v5.02 to v5.13, the computer can't start. It says: Removing battery is no solution, i'm sure it is caused by a bad flash. It has a sort of recovery, but not working; i tried it from floppy-drive and cd-rom (IDE), but both isn't working. Booting from USB is not supported in this state. So do i have any chance to get it working again?
Hotswap with a board with same socket and a switch in ami dos to ignore part num. Or try floppy disk recovery ctrl home i think. And it will run win7
Ok, i am able now to boot DOS from floppy. But next problem: Impossible to flash with awdflash. It is always stuck at "Please input File name": i write the filename (for example: awdbios.bin or a:\awdbios.bin), enter, but nothing happening. Always message above (f*cking tool!).
its easy.. type this exactly c: (press enter) now type awdflash filename ( no drive name) if error type dir pres enter and see what files it sees.
I read the ASUS-manual and they use afudos for mobo M2N68 (without ending -LN!), so i tried first afudos, but not working, perhaps only for ASUS-biosfiles? HP flashed it with their own bios. But it was possible to read bios under Vista with Winflash, and after extracting the HP-package - winflasher again. I can open the saved biosfile with awardtool, but it shows no SLIC, the computer has definitely SLIC 2.0, because it was sold as OEM/Vista preactivated. I checked it with SLIC-dumptoolkit before flashing bricking.....
Good news: That worked fine. I flashed with the ASUS_AWDFLASH_132 from the package with floppy. First original biosfile to check if vista-slic is still present after that (and it is. I have no idea where HP stored it, perhaps compressed code). Many thanks to you!