BIOS Updates forum

Hi everyone
...need some help. beacuse of frequent system hangs I`ve decided to make a bios update. found the one on notebook manufacturer site. i have check if is the right one and go flashing...
everything was right and then come "Please reboot" screen. after reboot the computer didn`t start! the screen is black and there are some beeps (in order: 1 8 2 1).
have some ideas? what to do? maybe some recovery disk? have you got some? I`ll be very pleased if somebody help me

Notebook is NEC VERSA LXi with 8MB graphic

with thanks
pebe

It`s me once again.
I`ve found the way to load a new bios by pressing CTRL+HOME during power on. notebook read the floppy with newbios.rom

but laptop still won`t work. two versions of bios from nec-online site are wrong.

COULD SOMEBODY SEND ME THE .ROM FILE FROM WORKING VERSA LXi???

Sounds like bios was not the original problem of your laptop.

Therefore it may be difficult to repair it now that you have two problems on it simultaneously.

It is never good approach to flash bios if you have stability problems

Hi,
I have several LXi's, I would be happy to help if I can.
Problem is, I am not sure how to extract the .rom file from a working unit.
I also have a few different versions of the early LXi bios floppy writer, but those probly won't help now.
Have some pieces too. Do you know ithe location of the bios chip on these computers? Mobo or dtrboard?
Hank