Hi:
Can anyone tell me which colored wires from a parallel cable, to join together to make a boot block for a laptop? My bios seems to be fried. I've tried to follow the following from an HP Support forum, but I have too many green wires to pick from (i.e. green with white stripe, green with black stripe, etc). Here is the post from the HP forum:
Boot Block Jumper
I used an old printer cable and traced the wires using a multi meter.
My wires were:-
Red to Black white
White to light Green
Yellow to very light green
pink to orange
brown to red/white
Insulated and cut off the bare parts of the other wires.
The link for this post is:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/foru ... 8+28353475
It's a Phoenix bios and I'm trying to do a recovery.
Thanks.
Make a parallel boot block for notebook
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Get the service manual and look at the actual pins. The wire colors inside a parallel cable are not standardized in any way and just following the colors could lead to a smal cloud of smoke here.
edwin/evasive
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System error, strike any user to continue...
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System error, strike any user to continue...
From this post:
The update key is connected to the printer or LPT port. It just connects the pins in a special order.
With a normal 25-pin LPT it connects pin:
2 <--> 15
3 <--> 13
4 <--> 11
5 <--> 12
6 <--> 10
Tested patched BIOSes. Untested patched BIOSes.
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