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    urgent! need help!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by poopdawg27, Sep 28, 2008.

  1. poopdawg27

    poopdawg27 Notebook Consultant

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    i was doin a routine vbios flash on the m860tu using nvflash...had the OC bios saved as 9800m.rom and the original saved as original.bin from GPU-z when i tried flashing with nvflash via nvflash -9800m.rom and is said blah blah completely erase eeprom? i said yes thinking it was just doing the firmware update...(flash) but now when i boot i get a black screen...any ideas how to save this?? i tried booting with the flash drive back in and doing an nvflash -original.bin and then waiting a sec to hit y but to no avail.... help!
     
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    you need the original vbios to be in .rom form for nvflash to use it. Open it up in nibitor and resave it to the flash drive as original.rom

    also you shouldn't need the "-" before the filename...
     
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    saved it with someone else's original bios. phew.
     
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    glad to hear
     
    theriko, Sep 28, 2008
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