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    Flashed Win BIOS PC wont boot! Gateway p series fx

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by sm0062, Sep 28, 2010.

  1. sm0062

    sm0062 Newbie

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    So, I've officially decided that I'm computarded after flashing the BIOS in the sticked BIOS thread. The flash ran and now the computer is unresponsive when i hit the power button. I'm afraid I may have fried my motherboard or BIOS chip. Is there anyway for me to revert to the default BIOS without a floppy drive?

    Any info is good info! thx

    its the 6860fx


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    can i actually take the battery out of the motherboard and unhook it from the powersupply and hold down the power button to reset it?
     
    sm0062, Sep 28, 2010
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  2. sm0062

    sm0062 Newbie

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    Bump. And if anyone knows how to find the freakin BIOS/CMOS battery in this thing it would be greatly appreciated. I can't find a detailed manual anywhere!
     
    sm0062, Sep 28, 2010
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  3. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    First question is which model IE P7805-u FX etc. With the P7805 the CMOS battery is located under the wireless card as an example..........
     
    TANWare, Sep 29, 2010
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  4. sm0062

    sm0062 Newbie

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    Ah sorry its the 6860, and i found the battery under the wireless card but it didnt seem to help. When i plug it in, the power button light is on but when i press the button nothing happens.
     
    sm0062, Sep 29, 2010
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  5. sm0062

    sm0062 Newbie

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    bump, could still use some help here. PC is still completely unresponsive.
     
    sm0062, Sep 29, 2010
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    xxERIKxx Notebook Deity

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    The sticky thread is for the 78xx series not the 68xx series.
     
    xxERIKxx, Sep 29, 2010
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  7. sm0062

    sm0062 Newbie

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    Yeap I have realized that was the issue, what I'm lookin for is a fix :)
     
    sm0062, Sep 29, 2010
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  8. nigelpreece

    nigelpreece Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not familiar with a bad bios update fix, usually when you flash a bad bios update it will kill your motherboard. Their are two ways of fixing this, the first way is to buy a new bios chip and remove the old one. The other option would be to replace the motherboard. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this to you yet.
     
    nigelpreece, Sep 29, 2010
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  9. sm0062

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    Yeap that's what I was worried about =/ I was hoping there would be a workaround but alas it seems i will be scrapping this old pc.
     
    sm0062, Sep 29, 2010
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  10. 0xGFX007

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    I suggest you Google the problem you might find a solution/workaround posted on some forum/site.

    Google: "Flashed wrong bios"
    "Gateway flashed wrong bios"
    "wrong bios can't boot"
    etc... You'll find plenty people on the internet with similar problems...
     
    0xGFX007, Sep 29, 2010
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  11. Syngensmyth

    Syngensmyth In All Seriousness

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    There may be a force flash procedure so look around a little more. I'm not sure.
     
    Syngensmyth, Sep 29, 2010
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  12. Archawk

    Archawk Notebook Guru

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    With P-78xx you can apply emergency flash recovery by using a USB containing emergency flash. This flash reading is started by holding Fn+ESC and then pressing power button to start the computer (before this you will need to remove at least battery and CMOS-battery and possibly hard drives).

    This is not foolproof however, there is a good chance that bad bios might have fried the flash memory for good, but it is worth of a try. This worked nicely for my P-7811, when I manged to mess up the bios on my computer while trying to adjust GPU voltages.

    Check this post for further details.
     
    Archawk, Oct 2, 2010
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