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    HP G60 336NR 2 LED flashes

    Discussion in 'HP' started by herbchristopher, Jan 23, 2011.

  1. herbchristopher

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    The right model number is G61-336NR. The board part number is 577065-001. Came with Windows 7, but with the used HDD installed, who knows whats on there. The OS system is anybody's guess.

    Let me tell the precurser to the issue: I bought this laptop used with no hard drive and a bad LCD. It booted fine before I disassembled the laptop. I replaced the LCD screen, and being stupid, I installed a good used HDD without the new operating system DVD in the drive.

    I get no display from either the LCD or an external monitor now, both of which have been tested on working computers. It does not allow me to enter system setup or other keyboard direct commands, as what ever I type has no affect on the LED flash sequence. It does not seem to access my USB drive either, as I see no flashing from it.

    The information I can find from HP is that on this laptop model, 2 LED flashes indicate a corrupted BIOS. I'm assuming that the laptop tried to run the data on the HDD from someone else's computer, and it corrupted the BIOS.

    I have tried several hard resets, following HP's instructions to reset the BIOS by way of blindly reseting the system data without a display, and by trying to get the laptop to boot off of the USB drive loaded with the BIOS files by using the windows key + B. I get no response from either solution. I only see two flashing LEDs, repeat...

    I was going to continue to see about ordering a BIOS programer, since that's cheaper than a new board, but someone suggested that this is not a BIOS problem. Now I'm really stumped. Any suggestions?
     
    herbchristopher, Jan 23, 2011
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