Bricked G73jh, any advice?

Hi everyone,

I may have bricked my g73jh by flashing to the v209 bios from v204. I followed the instructions written by some of the members of this forum. If anyone has any idea on how to revive the system, I would greatly appreciate it.

Here's what I did:

1. Turned off the LED lights for the keyboard and the button lights.
2. Flashed to v209 via the bios (easy flash) using a usb flash drive (16 mb max capacity, FAT format, the 209 bios file copied to the root directory of the flash drive).
3. Inserted flash drive into the left front USB port, and proceeded to flash
4. Waited for the flashing process to finish until it shuts down.
5. After waiting about 30 seconds, I proceeded to turn on my laptop.


Conclusion:
Nothing on the display screen shows up. The LED lights for the buttons on top of the keyboard lights up for a few seconds before the laptop shuts down again. This happens every time I try to power on the laptop.


Additional info:
Purchased my g73jh from cowboom 1 week ago: CowBoom.com - Computer Parts, PC & Laptops, Video Game Systems, Electronics and more!

 

Did you press the reset button on the bottom of the laptop for three to five seconds with the laptop turned off?

 

Just now, I've pressed that reset button.

It helped to stop the immediate shutdown after turning the laptop on. So now, the laptop powers on, but there is nothing on the display screen, with lights turned on for the top buttons on the keyboard.

After waiting a bit, it hasn't booted into Windows. Clearly, something might've happened during the bios flashing process. I was sure that I did everything cautiously too...

 

have you tried spamming the F2 key?

 

That sucks. The only other suggestion I have is to pull the battery and power and press the reset again holding it for about five seconds. Then plug in power but not battery and try to boot it up. It sounds like something went wrong. Did you get confirmation on the screen that the BIOS was flashed successfully or did your screen just go blank?

 

Resetting it again didn't help. The last thing I saw during the flashing processing was a message something along the lines of "shutting down in 2 seconds." After that, the laptop shuts down, so I assumed that the flashing process was completed.


@FruitSaladExtreme

Yes, I've tried spamming the F2 key, though I'm not sure if that will help.


Additional info: The fan and the hardware begins to "boot" about 20 seconds after I power the laptop on. I can hear the fan running. But as I've said, no display, and no indication of it booting into Windows either. I'm not even sure if the bios is even functional after pressing F2.

 

THe funny thing I updated once my original G73JH that PSOD, and twice this one from windows with no problem, I don't see why you are suggesting that easy flash is safer, don't forget that the BIOS has a very simple driver to read from the USB key, it's a RAW read. and if windows put's windows specific metadata in there it may corrupt the BIOS,and with winflash in case something goes wrong (checksum didn't work etc) the old BIOS is still in ram, and you can retry, hell the whole OS is in RAM, so you have more chances at saving it

 

I'm going to give an attempt at blind flashing (if that's even possible considering the circumstances). Though I doubt it will work, this will be my last resort before sending the laptop back for a replacement.

Can anyone post instructions to blindly flashing the bios step by step?

 

If you wish to use WinFlash for the ATI GPU, I would suggest getting the latest version to avoid an old bug.