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    BIOS Crisis Recovery Question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by ayuen22, Jan 9, 2011.

  1. ayuen22

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    Hello, I have Dv6700 (Dv6898CA). I recently upgraded from vista to windows 7 and found my blue ray drive not working anymore. I got HP online support to help me and they gave me the program to flash my bios to F58A. BIG MISTAKE. now it is a blank screeen. The screen isnt even turning on - therefore it is blank/black right now.

    Trying the crisis recovery using a USB flash drive (i don't have a usb floppy drive). I used the Phoenix Crisis program and selected the "extract" option into my USB flash drive. I replaced the Bios file with the one from HP website (F58 A I believe). I plug it into a usb port, press and hold window-key+b and plug in the AC and press the power.

    The laptop will beep beep beep in the following pattern: repeatedly 1 long, 2 short - What does this mean?. All my led would light up. Other forum indicated the fan is an indicator, but my broke prior to this incident.

    is that normal? I waited 10 minutes and restart, but still nothing happens
    please help


    edit: turn out the 1 long 2 short beep is checksum error, likely the USB boot drive was error. I've re-copied the files and now I get a 1 normal short beep and the USB drive lights up, but the screen is still blank/black not turned on. Doesn't look like the laptop is loading anyhting.
     
    ayuen22, Jan 9, 2011
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