BIOS Updates forum

Here's my story :P Bought a used HP Pavilion ZE5525ea with a bad flashed BIOS. Tried using the bootblock mode with partially success. On first try the floppy was read but nothing happend. Got a new floppy that my floppy drive did not like just came with those horrible noises only a floppy drive can ...

I just bought a car charger for my Dell laptop(Not original dell), but when I plugg it in and go into the bios it just displays unknown charger and does not charge the battery.

Is there a way around this?

That is normal, you need to put in a new flashed bios chip or it's not going to work in the first place and you need to pray you didn't heat damage anything when desoldering the old chip. Sounds nice. I know the computer don't work without a bios but I was supprised that it did not charge the batte...

Is there no one that have tried using there laptop without the BIOS chip? hmm...

Hi! I bought a HP Pavilion ZE5525EA with a bad BIOS flash. It was charging and light came on when pushing the power button. I tok it apart and de-soldered the bios chip (actually cutted the legs and then de-soldered the remining legs). I have ordered a new chip. But now, without any BIOS chip there ...