Sony Sr Bios Failure: Dead Laptop

Yesterday I tried to uprgrade my Sony SR19 with a latest bios and it crash during process.
Now the laptop does not boot anymore. No sony logo, no access to bios.

Is there any way to recover this ?
If I send it back to Sony, they will probably just change motherboard, right ?
And I guess that this void the warranty too, no ?

Can I open the laptop, remove the bios and flash it externally ?

There is a bios rescue for AMI bios. It uses a floppy disk. Do you know if a USB floppy disk would work ? Is sony AMI bios capable of this ?

 

That sucks. Usually when a bios flash fails and you can't post, the motherboard needs to be replaced. I think your only option is to send it in to sony for repair. They will probably just replace the mobo - hopefully you are under warranty. Since bios updates are available on thier website, I would think this doesn't void your warranty updating it by yourself - but I don't know much about sony, so hopefully someone else here knows. I don't think you can remove the bios chip, and if your under warranty, I would not attempt to open the laptop. You could try downloading a bios that updates by booting it from CD, but it sounds like thats not going to work in this case.

 

I really don't mean to be annoying by saying this, but to anyone else who attempts to update their bios.. Make sure you have a good reason to do it! Don't do it because it might fix a problem you haven't found yet.

That said, goodluck... Try to pass it on the warranty. Tell them you checked their website for a driver update for the video card (you 'had problems') and you thought the bios would help your 'flashing screen' problem.

That should work... Hopefully.