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    Clevo P170HM Bios help!!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by kill4l, Oct 31, 2011.

  1. kill4l

    kill4l Notebook Consultant

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    hello,
    yesterday i downloaded the bios for my laptop. all went great it flashed correctly but after it finished, i restarted the laptop and there is no sign of life.
    all black the only light is the power + orange one for Bluetooth , black screen
    as far as i understand the bios flashing was failed :(
    please any idea how to fix it ?
    big thanks in advance
     
    kill4l, Oct 31, 2011
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  2. TR2N

    TR2N Notebook Deity

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    Which bios did you flash to?

    Did you flash the ec too?
    More info required...
     
    TR2N, Oct 31, 2011
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  3. bonnie.clyde

    bonnie.clyde Notebook Consultant

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    First, reset the CMOS.
     
    bonnie.clyde, Oct 31, 2011
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  4. kill4l

    kill4l Notebook Consultant

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    i downloaded from the website the latest one, ver. P701_EC_08
    pressed the update.bat all finished and the laptop restarted . and no sign of life.
     
    kill4l, Oct 31, 2011
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  5. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    I might sound dumb but did you run the update.bat inside Windows?
     
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  6. kill4l

    kill4l Notebook Consultant

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    no i did it in dos, cuz there is no support for 64-bit
    i was doing that most of the time before, but dunno why this time it failed,
    the strange thing that all finished successfully .
     
    kill4l, Oct 31, 2011
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  7. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    There was a warning note attached to that EC version in the bios thread.
    I dont know what that means though. :(
     
    DEagleson, Oct 31, 2011
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  8. bonnie.clyde

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    I can not believe you did it. :D
    I did not succeed. ;)
    ...sorry.
     
    bonnie.clyde, Oct 31, 2011
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