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    HELP! Has anyone ever attempted a blind BIOS flash?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by iaTa, Jan 9, 2009.

  1. E-wrecked

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    iaTa? Luck?
     
    E-wrecked, Jan 15, 2009
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    Nope I've just been testing with the 6860 that I got my hands on and the Fn + B key method works perfectly. As I said the main difference that I can see is that with my broken 6831 as soon as I plug the AC power connection into the laptop the power button light illuminates. This is regardless of whether I am holding any keys down or not. There is definitely something very seriously wrong with it.

    I have tried every combination of key presses under the sun and nothing works. It behaves completely differently to the 6860. I think that the part 7811 BIOS incoreect flash has even corrupted the crysis recovery part of the 6831 BIOS. I don't think I have any option now but to send it to Gateway.
     
    iaTa, Jan 16, 2009
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    any way you can hold that power button for like 10 seconds and it shuts off completely? then try the recovery method without unplugging the power again.
     
    Johnksss, Jan 16, 2009
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    No, the only way I can get the power button to not illuminate is by holding it down whilst I plug the AC lead in. Then after a few seconds all the lights come on, then after a few seconds more they all go off apart from the power button. Other than that I can't get the power button light to turn off at all whilst the AC lead is connected. I've tried all the key combinations whilst holding down the power button but no luck. Strange that the lights come on though and if a hard drive is installed it spins up. Must be a very confused BIOS.
     
    iaTa, Jan 16, 2009
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    dammn, sorry to hear that iata....

    and you tried it with removing the hard drives?
     
    Johnksss, Jan 16, 2009
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    does your CD drive spin up? maybe a bootable CD..with autoexec set to flash. And yea, remove the HDDs :)
     
    E-wrecked, Jan 17, 2009
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    Do you know that is one thing I haven't tried E. I'll give it a go :)

    Tried everything else with hard drives in and out. Even tried putting the files on a formatted HD.
     
    iaTa, Jan 17, 2009
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    Use CDBurnerXP or Nero.. :) CDBXP is freeware.
     
    E-wrecked, Jan 17, 2009
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    I don't think it has to do with the media you are using at least thats is my owe opion.. I also have a gateway m6319 laptop which needs to be blind flashed but can not get any info on the key combination for powering up..

    iI just resecently fried the Gateway and Acer One formatting and partioning a bad usb key.. I recovered the Acer right away using a usb stick

    http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html


    used the above method... it works great had to do a couple of blind flashes since.


    But I have yet to figure out the key combination for powering up on the stupid Gateway.. I cannot get any info from gateway at all for it..

    I guess this is the last time I buy a Gateway .. will stick to more common laptop where info is more readly shared...
     
    trying, Feb 19, 2009
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