The flasher did not give any errors and flashed without any warning. NOW the laptop powers on but the display is dead... "seems" to boot the bios in the background but i have no way of checking.
WHAT I'VE already tried:
THE AMI RECOVERY METHOD
i tried the floppy method... i had a usb floppy drive around...
1. copied the right bios image "A1633NMS.705" on the floppy disk.
2. renamed it to AMIBOOT.ROM
3. with the floppy connected, and while holding down Ctrl+home(key numer seven in on my keyboard) i powered on the laptop.
4. it started checking the floppy... AND then went into a loop reading ( light goes on 3 sec... pause 5 sec) for 10 minutes ( more than enough time to read and flash )
so i guess there is something wrong and it keeps checking for something.... might there be something wrong with the file NAME?
thanks
i checked the msi page... it's the AMI BIOS...
it responds to Ctrl+Home.... but seems to search for the file and does not find it.... did MSI change the name it should have?
THE BLIND FLASH METHODtried the cd-rom method too.... it reads... then nothing the cdrom spin down.... then it just sits there doing nothing...
tried the memory stick method too... same thing ... reads.... then nothing
i've found the bios chip... it's accessible... it's under de modem card near the wireless module....
here is what i did...
made a boot able cdrom using floppy emulation....
inside the image (floppy emulation image)
AFU408_D.EXE
amiboot.rom
AUTOEXEC.BAT
COMMAND.COM
CONFIG.SYS (empty)
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
inside the autoexec.bat
"
a:\afu408_d.exe amiboot.rom /p /b /n /c /e /reboot
"
what i did:
1. took the hdd out to force cdrom boot....
2. inserted the cdrom
3. powered it up
results:
1. starts to read to cdrom... stops...
2. no action... for a prolonged period of time
questions:
2. i CAN "ctrl+alt+delete" to reset it ... what does this mean...?
it says...
WINBOND - W39L040P-70Z
i've found someone who can reprogram it for me... it's not worth going to warranty with it since... GOD KNOWS what they'll try to do to repair it and i can't exactly TELL them what i did... Cheesy ...
any ideas before i flash it?