Modded A10 Bios Bricked Laptop

Just tried installing the modded a10 bios. During the install it got to 2 of 70 blocks and froze. I had to remove power supply to turn off. As I figured
, the computer would not boot after putting battery back in.

I've tried crisis recovery as detailed in the thread. I created a boot drive using windows xp boot mode in windows 7. Plugged the thumb drive into the esata port and did the press fn+b and power button as the instructions stated.

It still doesn't do anything. Am I doing something wrong? Should I try something different? Thanks!

I have retried installing the bios repair on the USB stick. It seems to be installed correctly. USB is formatted to fat. I've removed the CMOS battery and plugged back in after waiting a while. I've removed the GPU card.

Still nothing.

How long should I have to hold the fn+b keys?

Alright so at this point I'm thinking I'm going to need a new motherboard. I've tried numerous times with the crisis procedure. I can't get a single thing to light up.

What are the odds that it could be even worse than a motherboard? Could it have ruined the GPU, CPU, LCD, etc...

 

I highly doubt you ruined any of your hardware but do not have a clue on how to fix your bios issue.

Did you try this??


1. A usb thumb Drive is need. It will work.

2. Bios From dells website.

3. Extract all the files from the Dell bioes autoexe, make sure to close down winphlash when it tries to run. Dell autoruns this after you extract the files.

4. look for a zip file called CRISDISK.RAR and extract all the files to your desktop or a folder.

Double click on the WINCRIS file that looks like a floppy diisk

It will autoinstall the ALL the files need to the USB Drive


5. Remove the battery and disconnect the Power supply.

6. Place the USB drive into the Esata port (other ports may work) (not sure how your gonna put a usb drive in a esata port but thats what it says lol im asuming they meant usb port)

7 Press and hold FN+B key at the same time and plug in the power. Turn on power and continue to HOLD DOWN the FN+B key until the HDD lights on the alien head illuminate and stay on. At this time the USB drive lights should start to Flash.

8. In about 5-10 mins your computer should restart. Make sure to go back into BIOS and setup raid and any other settings as they were lost with the BIOS crash.

 

Yes. That is the crisis procedure I spoke of. Lights/fans, etc... Doesn't turn on when pressing the power button. With or without the battery. With or without the power adapter plugged in.

 

BOOT Block was erased and wasn't rewritten. All recovery procedure are in the BOOT Block so now you need to repair it. To a private Service Center I would say to make it cheaper.

 

James,

Thanks. That's actually good to know and makes sense on why it's not responding to recovery procedure. I have the motherboard out of the laptop. Is there something I could do to fix this rather than take it to a service center?

 

Sorry, someone has to unsolder the BIOS chip (and you hope that it is only 1 BIOS chip inside), then either reprogram this chip with proper BIOS image or buy the BIOS chip somewhere (many eBay sellers are actually frauds because they just put bios which they download from site while actual bios image from the chip may be differ and contain other info like serial number etc) and then solder back.

Unless you have soldering station and I2C programmer you can't do anything... unless ask in the owner's thread of your laptop if someone has already fixed it himself. If you give proper BIOS image to master he may give you discount... but who knows.

 

This is why I don't mess around with that sort of stuff..

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