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    dv9000t: Bad BIOS flash?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by kev99sl, Jan 1, 2008.

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    kev99sl Notebook Guru

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    Just flashed my notebook to F.29, and all seemed to go fine until reboot. Now nothing but three very loud beeps in a pattern of one, one-two ... one, one-two. How screwed am I?
     
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    you can also try do a hard reset by removing all power (battery and ac) and then holding down the power button for like 30 seconds to just clear the system of all power.
     
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    Thanks for the link: that will come in handy (unfortunately). It actually sounds more like the Award 1 long beep followed by 2 short ones. The closest Phoenix code would be the first: CPU Motherboard failure. Yikes.
     
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    BEEP CODE MEANING POSSIBLE CAUSE
    1 Long, 2 Short Video adapter failure Bad video adapter

    could also be

    Repeating High, Low beeps CPU failure Bad processor

    Contact HP support to get it fixed/repaired.
     
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    Thanks all. I am informed it's still under warranty. Regardless, I bought the 2-year "even-if-I-spill-coffee-on-it" plan, so I should be OK.

    The bigger question I have is, what went wrong? Weird.
     
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    As it turns out, my model is included in the service enhancement. I didn't have to provide any information about the extended service plan I bought, so maybe they're covering the repair under this enhancement. Weird. I can remain this calm only because I did my most recent backup yesterday afternoon. (Although the stuff on the hard drive is still there anyway, I suppose.)
     
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    I just wanted to share my success in bringing back a dead HP Pavilion DV9207US Entertainment Laptop. It’s the DV9000t intel family. My laptop froze during my flash update of the bios to version F.29 within Vista. After I powered it back on I would get a series of LOUD beeps and nothing else.

    I went to the HP Business suppot forum -Crisis Recovery Disk post.

    http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=974719

    I followed user “fabio84” post and downloaded his crisis disk since my bios file was 1MB as well. Also he said he had a dv9003ea which I thought might be similar to my dv9000t.

    Just a couple of things, I used WIN+B to access the USB drive. Also the laptop will continue to BEEP very loudly but in a different pattern of beeps. Just be patient and wait until the laptop powers off. Leave the room or cover your ears. It will take several minutes. I removed the usb drive, powered it back on, and it WORKS! Failed Bios fixed!
     
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    Nice find! I'm bookmarking that.
     
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