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    MSI 1013 bad flash situation? Help needed.

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by SCSI, Nov 26, 2005.

  1. SCSI

    SCSI Notebook Enthusiast

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    I updated my BIOS to the 1013_410 BIOS and completed successfully. It shut down after flash but when I power it on, the screen never comes on, no beeps, the DVDRW blinks a few times, HD spins, and fan spins. Not sure how to go about fixing this.

    I tried to do a BIOS recovery and followed the instructions here and created a bootable CD and also renamed the BIOS to AMIBOOT.ROM and pressing CTRL+Home after powering on my laptop but somehow it is not working. Does it work only with floppy drives? I laptop doesn't have a built-in floopy drive and I have been using the built-in DVDRW as a boot device.

    Is there a way to reset the CMOS? Any other way to recover the BIOS? Please help.
     
    SCSI, Nov 26, 2005
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  2. WhatMovesU

    WhatMovesU Notebook Guru

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    It could be your hardwares being not compatible with the latest BIOS. Try a different stick of RAM to see if that helps. I got a similar issue as you've described and it turns out to be the RAM was not compatible(a A-DATA 512mb ddr pc3200 stick).
     
    WhatMovesU, Dec 14, 2005
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