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No, but would be possible too, even easier as it could run UEFI.
I got it from a friend to speed up, wanted to spend it a SSD, almost finished only wanted to optimize and make a clean install from stick.
Now I have bricked his laptop …Used motherboard (and you have to hope it will run) from China about 150€ (with taxes).
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Take the battery out and power cord hold the power button for 60 secs, I have had to do this before failed at first tried a couple of days later it worked as there was still a slight bit of power in the motherboard chips, Be patent it can take a while
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Maybe also worth trying to remove and leave out the laptop cmos battery (if this is different button cell) as this may allow the bios to return to factory default eventually (maybe)
Does the screen light up /flicker in any way?
Also unplug SSD / HDD so it does not get damaged until BIOS is working again.
Trial and error I am afraid .
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).
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With a Steady hand for soldering
, I would still if possible turn laptop off and with battery and AC unplugged, leave for a couple of days, then if does not start at weekend, time for new chip maybe.The amount of times in my early days I have put broken Desktops / Servers / Laptops to one side for the weekend only to find the following week they work again (ish) is very interesting
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If you can hear the fans going in the laptop, you may still be able to reflash using USB formatted to fat 32 and copy across the bios .fd file and a certain button sequence like Fn+Esc, you will have to look that up for your laptop, good luck
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Then apart from swapping motherboard or soldering a new bios chip I stuck sorry
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We got it – unbelievable!
My son helped with RasPi and Linux with flashrom, connected 6 Pins of onboard Bios-chip to VCC+3,3V/GND/CLK/CS/MOSI/MISO (Write and Hold left open).
Soldered wires on chip with connectors on RasPi side.
I found 3 Bios files online and second worked, with first keyboard didnt work, 3rd not tested (maybe we will try this too).Liked by:
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Great news, so no new BIOS chip needed (clever chap)
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, I would still if possible turn laptop off and with battery and AC unplugged, leave for a couple of days, then if does not start at weekend, time for new chip maybe.- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.