IFL90 Flash to 1.18 problem

So today I decided to update my IFL90's bios up to 1.18 since I was reading how it was generally stable and boasted better performance than older bios versions. I've owned my IFL90 for almost 2 years now (coming up this september) and it has never failed me except for one time when the hard drive failed on me (replaced for free anyway).

I download the bootable Bios CD and burn the iso to a cd using Alcohol 120%. Restart the computer and the flash seems to be working fine. It flashes and I am watching the progress go through 0123456789ABCDEF then the computer suddenly restarts, I see the new looking Pheonix Bios boot screen and it seems arlight until it starts to boot up windows when I get the blue screen of death and the computer restarts and this happens over and over again.

I am trying to figure out what went wrong exactly with the flash and thinking if I should just revert back to an older version bios that was working fine before despite the fact I would have really liked having a more up to date bios for my notebook.

I will try and figure out what the blue screen is saying, but I am using my office computer right now instead.

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Tried bios 1.08 to the same effect

Tried reflashing to bios 1.16 and now I just get a black screen nothing is going on, power light and charge lights are active, but nothing else is going. I think this laptop may be bricked

 

Specs are Intel Core Due 2.2 4GB DDR2-667 ram (only 3 used) 120gb HD Windows XP 32bit

 

Disable AHCI in BIOS

It WILL work.


Cya

 

AHCI is the likely culprit. When you flashed the bios every options was reset to default. Go in the bios and disable it.

 

Hm wish I heard about that earlier, can someone suggest what I should do now? I have been trying to work around the fact I have no visual when I am trying to change the settings going off memory and the user manual i found for the bios

 

Not sure I understand what you mean but you just press F2 at the phoenix splash screen when the laptop boots then you go in the advance tab and set ahci to disabled, F10 to save the settings and quit and your problem should be fixed.
You can reenable AHCI after following this method: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=164159

 

it sounds like you need to do a crisis bios flash and then flash to 1.18 and then disable AHCI.

 

Crisis booted the laptop back to life using bios 1.13 after a day of trials. Strange thing is ever since it came back, the notebook will automatically shutdown a lot due to heat. I cleaned the laptop thoroughly and gave it time to cool off, but it still happens after about an hour and a half of us, less if it is playing a game or something.I was watching the temperature gauges, CPU cores his 70C GPU was 72C, HDD rose up to around 41C or 42C by my last check before it shutdown randomly. I updated to Bios 1.18 and disabled AHCI (it works great) but it still seems to have the same problem with the autoshutdown which I think is connected to heating issues. I have a crappy generic laptop cooler which lowers most temps by 1 or 2C which I have running but it still does this. Any suggestions?

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I noticed something, if I remove the battery completely and have the notebook run on just AC Power, it doesnt seem to have this problem. At all, with the battery out I did stress tests on the CPU to raise the temperature and got the CPU temp to rise to 84C with no auto shutdown response from the system. Odd, I will try this again with the battery and see what happens.

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I stress tested the CPU again and temps hit into the 80s but no auto shutdown. I then proceeded to play COD4 in high settings to stress the CPU, it registered 84C on HWMonitor, but no auto shutdown. I am starting to feel this isn't a heat problem as much as it might have something to do with the battery or power supply. Seeing that it only happens when the battery is in the notebook, I am edging towards that being the culprit.