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    Hp dv6-2010sa

    Discussion in 'HP' started by strudders88, Oct 23, 2014.

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    Can someone please help my laptop is doing the 2 light flash so bios is corrupt can someone please tell me what files i have to use and what i need to name them to. As it gets through and doesn't restart
     
    strudders88, Oct 23, 2014
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    Does the laptop post or not (does it display anything on the screen at all at any time or you just have backlight on, but no picture). If it does not post, you need either a new BIOS chip for your mainboard or northbridge (more likely) - this is what usually gives 2 caps lock lights. Both of them are hardware repairs for the mainboard.
     
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    Screen is black but ive been reading that you can emergency flash with a usb pen drive?
     
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    I will try to get back to you tomorrow on that.
     
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    I just need the right file to put on the flash stick
     
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    Any luck at all anyone please
     
    strudders88, Oct 24, 2014
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    The crysis recovery might be already on your HDD if your recovery partition is fine. Try removing the battery, connect the PSU and press Win+B. Hold them and power the laptop on (hold the power button+Win+B for 1-3 seconds). This should initiate the emergency recovery with the files already on your HDD. They should be there unless you installed another OS or deleted/damaged recovery partition. You can extract the required emergency update files from BIOS update file (with WinRAR or 7Zip etc), downloaded from HP support website. You might need more than FD file, I believe there should be BIN file as well, but I am not sure where to get it from.
    Most of the times this does not work though I am afraid and hardware repair is necessary.
    Good luck.
     
    mariussx, Oct 24, 2014
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    that is the files i can get i got the f.13 but there is no bin file only fd as you can see in the second pic Untitled2.png
     
    strudders88, Oct 25, 2014
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