[plug] MITAC Notebook BIOS update went wrong. BIOS not coming up anymore

[Quintin Lette]

Hi,

Generally the trick for BIOS updates gone wrong is swapping the BIOS chip 
(considering its essential to boot the pc/notebook) with an identical but 
working one (I know with PCs you can the hotswap the old one and reflash to 
have 2 working BIOS chips again, the other method requires an EPROM flashing 
device, but with notebooks sometimes the bios is surface mounted so I don't 
know if that will be possible.

Generally BIOS flashing is a no brainer, but when it goes wrong it is a royal 
pain in the butt as you will have noticed.

I don't know of any MITAC dealers in Perth, but Computer Cybershop in Stirling 
Street should be able to help (ring first - but they are a Laptop specialist 
and usually pretty good)

HTH

Quintin


On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:21, Sacha Schlegel wrote:
> Hi Plugger
>
> A friend of mine just got a serious problem.
>
> He wanted to update his BIOS of his MITAC notebook. The update went wrong.
>
> The update program did say: please dont power off! and provided a menu to
> a) update b) load file c) advance. The menu did not respond to any
> keystrokes so we waited and waited and waited. Nothing happened. After a
> while we did turn it off.
>
> AND turned it on again, but it did not come up. Not even the bios did come
> up. And there was no possiblity to backup the old bios.
>
> Concret we might check if there are any MITAC dealers here in Perth.
>
> Any ideas, comments.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Sacha