Forcing laptop out of hibernation

I got a ASUS G1S and I did a really really stupid thing with it.

While it was hibernating I accidentally yanked out the power cord (with no batteries inside) and now it refuses to boot up. It doesn't even display the splash screen. I heard from my friend that I can force it out of hibernation to make it boot normally but I don't know how.

Can anyone help me with this??? I'm pretty darn desperate to get it to work.

 

Hi Chibi, i'm not sure if you've already done this, but i would first press the power button with the battery removed and power cord unplugged to release any excess power. Then put the battery back in, connect the power cord, and let it charge for a few minutes before pressing the power button and see if it boots again.

 

Hi David. Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I did that and it still gave me the black screen of doom. Any other ideas?

 

Was it sleep or hibernate? Hibernate actually shuts the laptop down I thought and worst case is when booting windows would crash but it would ask if you want to erase the hibernate point and boot fresh.

If its not even posting than something else has gone wrong.

Maybe try an external monitor, or turn it on and while on just use the emergency reset pin hole

 

Hi Bryanu. Thanks for your help too.

It was hibernate. And I think I actually yanked out the power when it was updating BIOS which is why when I turn it on now it just gives me a black screen. Not even the splash screen... just a black black dead screen.

I will try the emergency reset pin hole thing. Thanks.

 

You cant hibernate and flash the bios at the same time?

But if you was indeed flashing than your out of luck I am sorry to say. I dont think these can recover from bad flash like some of the new desktops.

You will have to send it in. (If not under warranty I am not sure if it has removable bios chip you can replace yourself). If it is under warranty just contact Asus... Just dont admit that you unplugged during the flash because that wont be a warranty than. Just say you flashed and it never rebooted or something.. (I know bad to lie but what can we do..)

 

Yes, if a BIOS flash goes bad then you've bricked your motherboard and BIOS needs to be reinstalled by Tech Support. The system can look like hibernate because the screen can be off while the BIOS is updating and there is at least one reboot involved usually, and if you pulled power in the middle of that, then...... dead. Contact them at your earliest opportunity.

That's why one always needs to take precautions that the system power will never be interrupted during a flash procedure (battery and power cord both plugged in) - it's one of the few things that can instantly break your notebook if something goes awry. Sorry .

 

if you pulled the plug while it was flashing the new bios, try the amiboot.rom method. there might be hope that the boot block (fourth section in the structure, some 50KB from start) was written.

i've never tried this (nor do i actually plan to), but from what i can tell theres no reason it shouldnt work: http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html

 

But if I read it correctly (and I may not be), both of the described methods need a bootable FLOPPY disk for the procedure to work?

Haven't seen one of those built in a notebook in 4 years.....

 

That is true, but I recall some sites saying you can do with a CD... For example my Asus deasktop board (now in for RMA, I hate Asus sometimes) had that file on the CD and if say I killed a bad flash i could pop the CD in and it would flash it without seeing anything.

Never tested it but I know some do it from CD for sure... I think they maybe check for floppy first than go for CD... But the simple way to know if this would work is when he turns on the notebook if he hears the CD trying to do anything or sees it light up. If not than its a loss cause..

 

it never hurts to try anything a usb stick is easier and quicker.
some desktop boards have dual nand chips or the boot block as a separate EPROM. laptops (afaict) don't, so it all depends if youre lucky enough that the section was written.

 

It depends on if the boot part and other necessary parts of the flash was wiped out.

If it is simply the VBIOS that got wiped out, you can sometimes create an MS-DOS disk on another PC and make an AUTOEXEC.BAT file which runs the command to flash it (ie: aflash /i<flash bin file> where <flash bin file> is the file you downloaded) and it MIGHT work. Any other part being corrupt may or may not cause it to stop working completely.