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

[Brad Campbell]

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.
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>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.
>  
>
Check the MITAC site, this happened to me and there was a diagram for a 
dummp plug to insert into one of the ports on the back of the laptop 
that kicked in a rescue bios type of affair.
I had to prepare a special boot disk with the right files on it and 
insert the dummy plug then it booted and with no video or interaction 
re-flashed the bios. It was all on the mitac site and a couple of years 
ago now.

Brad