Sager 2090 Boot Up Problem

I just received my Sager 2090 in the mail earlier today and was able to boot it up a few times. The bios was already updated to 1.10, but before I noticed the ver number I made a bootable USB disk and put the 1.10 bios on it.

When I booted up after a few times I realized it was already in 1.10 but decided to go ahead and go into the bootable USB just to see if I had set it up correctly. When I hit F12 and selected the USB device it put me to the cursor blinking in the top left corner. It sat there for a few minutes and then I figured I must have setup the USB stick wrong so I turned the computer off.

After that when I went to turn the laptop on the buttons light up but the screen does not. It stays that way. I can hear the sounds of the hard drive working, but the screen stays blank. I can leave it and it'll just show the power up light.

So I'm wondering if I've messed up the bios somehow, and what can I do to fix this? It really sucks since I just got the machine, is there some way I can use the crisisBios to reboot the machine with just RW CD's and a USB flash disk? Or am I going to need to RMA it to Sager?

Thanks for the help.

 

Jubalint I suspect you were in middle of updating process and before it can finish you shut down your laptop.
I'm not all that farmiliar with phonix bios but there were keys to press while trying to do blind booting in ami bios and force firmware updating in that way.
The other method, requring 2 identical motherboards to flash a dead bios on working motherboard. But I only did that with desktop not laptop...
RMA for me

 

You can probably reflash your bios via the usb stick by just knowing what to type without seeing it on screen. This will be difficult though. I did this before when I did something similar.

 

Can someone give me more information on this BIOS? How do I know if mine is updated? If it isnt, is it an update I should do? If it is, how do I do it?

 

For flashing the bios blind. Would I do the same key presses as if the screen was on?

I'm thinking flashing the bios from a bootable CD would be a more surefire route. Since I've done that before. Can I just use the regular bios or should I use the crisisBios I see? I don't really know what the crisisBios is though, or how it is different from the regular bios.

I'd really really appreciate if someone could tell me how many key presses down selecting cd as your boot device is.

I know it's F12 for boot menu, and then is it three or two key presses down for CD? And then once I'm in the boot CD and I type IFT00110.BAT (which I can change to like, bios.bat right?) is there anything else I need to type or is that all that's needed? And then weight like five minutes or so correct?

Thanks again for everyones help. Would love to not have to RMA this within a day after receiving it .

 

Your situation sounds familiar to mine:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=161117

I ended up having to RMA

 

I've done the same and am RMA'ing.

Hope they just have to replace the BIOS chip and not the whole motherboard.