Bios flash failed

Hi,
I just flashed the BIOS on an HP dv6883cl, from F.52 to the current F.58, and now the laptop won't boot. The lights come on, but no image ever appears. I'm running Vista 64-bit OS.

I verified that the requirements were correct: Intel CPU, 64-bit.

Anyone know how to recover this beast?

Thanks
Cam

BTW, I can't find the original F.52 in HPs site. They've got the F.51 and F.53. Hmmmm.

 

Welcome to the NBR forums. Perhaps this thread can help?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=326954

In terms of BIOS versions, F.52 was never posted publicly and was included only with notebooks that were being built at the time you bought yours. The latest BIOS release is currently version F.59, which you can find in my driver thread specifically for this series -- http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=339035.

 

Thanks for the info and the F59 BIOS. Unfortunately nothing has worked. I've tried using a bootable USB drive, in all 3 USB ports. I've tried using a bootable CD, to no avail. Details:

made a bootable USB stick using the HP USB drive program. Verified the correct files are on there. Copied the BIOS files onto it and renamed it bios.wph. On the inert laptop, held down Wn key and "b" key and plugged in the AC adapter cable (no battery installed). Pressed Power button...all lights came on...released power buttin....held Wn+b for 3 secs...released....waited for up to 15 minutes...nothing. All the lights are still on, but I've got a black screen. No activity light on the USB drive. A few times when I've done the procedure, I will get a long-short-short beep code (which according to Phoenix is a video problem). I've tried reseating the memory. Is it possible I've damaged the video adapter on the system board when I updated the BIOS? (Not asking for any crystal ball type work though ; just curious.)

 

No, i don't think you have damaged the video chip. What happens is that with those HPs the video BIOS is integrated in the main one. So they save $1 by not including an extra EEPROM. Nah i don't think it's the cost. More likely for customers to be unable to mod it.

So if the motherboard BIOS didn't get flashed properly, the video BIOS is corrupted too, making the machine believe there's something wrong with the video card.