my Latitude D510 won't boot or let me access to the BIOS after low level formating

Hi everyone!
I had some real problems with the hard drive of my laptop, a lot of clusters were actually unusable (or broken, i don't know how to say it). I used the Seagate Disk Wizard utility, and after a long scan, it told me a "Zero Fill Process" would solve my problem and save my hard drive. So I launched this low level formating, it took like 2hours and I thought everything was fine. But after the 1st reboot, well my screen doesn't display anything and I can't even access to the BIOS when I hit the power button, the fans/drives start, then the computer shuts down like 4 sec after.
I read (too late) that the BIOS of my computer may have been on the hard drive, which would mean I can't boot it anymore!
My question is: is there any way i could restore the bios of my Latitude D510?
I have searched in this Dell section, but haven't found anything helping me.
thanks in advance

 

up, my latitude d510 is still stuck

 

The bios wont be on the hardrive, thats in a chip on the mobo, other than that I dont know what to tell you, you should be able to get to the bios screen without a harddrive, I'd try calling dell and see if they know any quick fix

my first guess would be a failed mobo(motherboard)

did you drop the laptop?, or expose it to extreme heat (such as left in a car) for a period of time?, the condition of your HD leads me to believe something not too good happend to it, and that event could have led to other harware failures as well

 

hi Iceman,
I'm pretty sure every part of my laptop is ok. I didn't drop the computer or exposed it to extreme heat. as I said, it just happened right after a low level formating, which went fine (a message said it went fine). I tried to boot the computer without the HDD, but it does the exact same thing
It must be an internal protection, but I don't get it...
Dell didn't help me with any quick fix, and since my laptop is no more on warranty, it would cost me 600$ to replace the mainboard.
I just don't know what to do...
thanks for your help anyway Iceman

 

Bios comes way before the hard drive. The short power cycle could mean a power problem or a short in the system.

I really wonder why you would have bad clusters. It is not normal for a drive just out of the blue to have them.

I think you have a major hardware issue.

 

Is there a way to clear the CMOS on laptops? I know on a desktop, you can change a jumper....

You might want to look into a way to clear the CMOS. If that doesn't solve the problem, you probably have a big hardware issue.

 

Looks like you need a new motherboard