HP Envy 17 3200 CTO

Got an HP Envy 17 3200 CTO loaded at the time. Quad core, Radeon HD 7850M, etc.

Well the other day the thing blue screened but froze during that process and the graphics glitches during that screen. Corruption and blocks appeared and disappeared. I was forced to shut it down during the blue screen as something big wasn't working during the crash dump process, it stood at 0%.

Upon restart the unit screen doesn't turn on and no noises are made like beeps indicating an issue. The Bluray makes its usual prep sounds it does at every start up. It sits with a blank screen that doesn't even appear to be powered on. The only other indicator is the caps lock key flashes a few times and goes off, then flashes a few times and goes off..

What part likely died on this sucker? CPU? Dram? Motherboard? Graphics card? How can I trouble shoot it if it doesn't power on ..

While it sits there various LEDs on the keyboard are on as said .. Caps lock flashing.
Power LED on. I think the wireless LED is on too.. The HP envy light on the hood is also on..

 

according to the HP diagnostics page, the LED blinking on the caps lock means the BIOS is corrupt.

anyone experience this with their unit and know how to restore the BIOS? The guide to restore the HP BIOS on HP's site is not applicable to the Envy 17 because the BIOS install file doesn't allow one the option to install to an external drive.

they claim you will need the correct files on the USB drive and press windows key plus B and then hold, while pressing the power button on.

inside the BIOS installation if you extract it with 7-zip, are two .fd files. I tried renaming both to .bin and placing both or one or the other on the USB drive and booting via windows plus B plus power, but nothing appears to happen. I'm not sure which .fd file is applicable to my system either, apparently both BIOS files are for specific units depending on the precise model.

from inside the BIOS installation .ini instructions for the Insydeflash :
FD#01=PCI,0,0,0,2C,FFFFFFFF,1851103C,01851.fd (which systems get this file? it's based on the ID code 1851103C)
FD#02=PCI,0,0,0,2C,FFFFFFFF,1852103C,01853.fd (which systems get this file? it's based on the ID code 1852103C or 1853103C)
FD#03=PCI,0,0,0,2C,FFFFFFFF,1853103C,01853.fd

Info on LED light codes: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01732674

two blinks BIOS corruption failure.

Info on restoring the BIOS that doesn't seem to be applicable 100% to HP Envy 17t-3200 CTO per say: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02693833

help someone familiar.

 

according to the HP diagnostics page, the LED blinking on the caps lock means the BIOS is corrupt.

anyone experience this with their unit and know how to restore the BIOS? The guide to restore the HP BIOS on HP's site is not applicable to the Envy 17 because the BIOS install file doesn't allow one the option to install to an external drive.

they claim you will need the correct files on the USB drive and press windows key plus B and then hold, while pressing the power button on.

inside the BIOS installation if you extract it with 7-zip, are two .fd files. I tried renaming both to .bin and placing both or one or the other on the USB drive and booting via windows plus B plus power, but nothing appears to happen. I'm not sure which .fd file is applicable to my system either, apparently both BIOS files are for specific units depending on the precise model.

from inside the BIOS installation .ini instructions for the Insydeflash :
FD#01=PCI,0,0,0,2C,FFFFFFFF,1851103C,01851.fd (which systems get this file? it's based on the ID code 1851103C)
FD#02=PCI,0,0,0,2C,FFFFFFFF,1852103C,01853.fd (which systems get this file? it's based on the ID code 1852103C or 1853103C)
FD#03=PCI,0,0,0,2C,FFFFFFFF,1853103C,01853.fd

Info on LED light codes: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01732674

two blinks BIOS corruption failure.

Info on restoring the BIOS that doesn't seem to be applicable 100% to HP Envy 17t-3200 CTO per say: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02693833

help someone familiar.

will trouble shoot if the BIOS battery is dead because someone said if the battery is low, his system also wouldn't boot.