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  • newtothis
    Badcaps Legend
    • Mar 2013
    • 1556
    • england
    #1

    Failed bios flash

    Ok so have a laptop coming to me that has a failed bios flash - The system hung and the owner powered the system down - Upon trying to boot the system lights up but no display/backlights etc....

    So I could buy another bios and solder it on but where is the fun in that...

    I have a raspberry PI that I use to flash the NOR chipsets on playstation 4 when they go corrupt... I have a SOIC 16 to DIP 16 jig for the PS4 NORs and the laptops is a SOIC 8 so I should be able to fit it in..

    So my question as I have never done a laptop BIOS before... Can I just get the BIOS files from the manufacturers website and reflash it via my PI or does it have to be a full dump of an existing BIOS?

    Cheers
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    • stj
      Great Sage 齊天大聖
      • Dec 2009
      • 30952
      • Albion
      #2
      Re: Failed bios flash

      depends on the size of the bios download vs the chip

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        • newtothis
          Badcaps Legend
          • Mar 2013
          • 1556
          • england
          #3
          Re: Failed bios flash

          With that I am assuming there are usually containers associated with the bios downloads from the manufacturers websites vs the RAW data on the chip?

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            • ala_borbe
              aka Donald
              • Apr 2011
              • 1625
              • Malta
              #4
              Re: Failed bios flash

              usually but not always
              when you get laptop, post full model code, motherboard model and il try to help
              Im Back... sort of...

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                • newtothis
                  Badcaps Legend
                  • Mar 2013
                  • 1556
                  • england
                  #5
                  Re: Failed bios flash

                  I know the model of the system is a MSI GE60 2PC-610UK

                  I will get board numbers once in my possession.

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                    • newtothis
                      Badcaps Legend
                      • Mar 2013
                      • 1556
                      • england
                      #6
                      Re: Failed bios flash

                      Ok so I get the laptop in - Open her up and guess what I find....








                      plenty of this over a lot of the board

                      I very much doubt what the owner said was true - Seems liquid killed this one
                      Last edited by newtothis; 07-04-2016, 05:40 PM.

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                        • Th3_uN1Qu3
                          Believe in
                          • Jul 2010
                          • 6031
                          • Romania
                          #7
                          Re: Failed bios flash

                          Bust out the IPA and toothbrush then.
                          Originally posted by PeteS in CA
                          Remember that by the time consequences of a short-sighted decision are experienced, the idiot who made the bad decision may have already been promoted or moved on to a better job at another company.
                          A working TV? How boring!

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                            • newtothis
                              Badcaps Legend
                              • Mar 2013
                              • 1556
                              • england
                              #8
                              Re: Failed bios flash

                              Already scrubbed the board down.. No change

                              No heat from GPU

                              CPU gets BURNING hot

                              No Backlight

                              No display

                              No sound

                              Charge and power light work

                              Fan Works

                              That is all - May sell as liquid damaged on eBay but otherwise scrap heap

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