Combination for flashing BIOS

Sometimes there is a bad connection in the ignition switch in combination with the gear shifter. Try wiggling around the two a bit when you turn it to start. But first, can you tell us if there are any bad fuses? Check the fuses.

everyone fails, no they don't
do not flash your BIOS, unless 2 things are true.
1: HP told you to directly to fix a specific problem.
2: you read all the bios updates all pages at HP called details
and it shows a fix for you.
most folks that flash bios brick there PCs. 10000 did on the HP real forum (want proof"?)

lesson 2, HP ends support after 10 years, (my guess from the last year sold, not first of the SERIES)
wow, no PC stated
no OS stated,
no statement that the PC was modified, at all.

no problems stated, and ever heard, if it aint broke don;t fix it?
ring true here.
if you continue on this path you will lose.
vast persons have, endless.
the BIOS must match perfectly or you brick it.
the PC has service tag , model # and nnnnnn#ABA , part number
the bios must match that or you will kill that pc dead as a brick.

we are not HP , why even ask this rag forum this very tech question. ever heard of HP.
here is hp. posted here like, 10,000 times. +

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/

do you flash every weekend for fun, ? or DRAMA,?

• With the computer on, use a flash light to inspect the screen. If you can see a very faint image then either the inverter board is bad or back light. Usually its the inverter.
• If you get nothing, plug an external monitor and toggle the display to it. If you get output then your screen is bad or possibly a loose video cable.
• If you get nothing, power off, pull battery pull all memory out. Power on computer. If you get BIOS and a no memory error, one of your memory modules is bad.
• Still nothing, then the motherboard is bad.

deads'ville.
my old PC CQ60-220us, thanks for full number !!!
what os? VISTA?
those are called flash codes and have meaning!
the screen never once shows TEXT or HP /Compaq logos. right?
nothing to me means just the the TEXT IS GONE
"hit ESC to enter setup" or F2,F10,,etc....
carbon14 dated by me at 2008, ? (MY HP has F1 info page shows day made, a BIOS page F1) The year mATTERS.


steps below. for dead pc. means screen dead, and BIOS keys dead.

1. take the battery main out, they short, remove it ;after all you can run like that for ever on the line pack, a fact. so do so now.
2. does it power on, seems yes, does it stay on? (heard and seen)
3. does the fan blow< spin and not packed solid in lint?
4. use flash light pointed at screen , turn PC on the use the flashlight see data now? yes, bad black lamps CCFL, ask
5. beep codes or caps lock flash codes,? write them down and tell the helper what the are? its code. like Morse code.
6. there are more tests. does the CD eject button work?

my wild guess, (unseen by me) is the CCFL lamps are dead.
the LCD on this PC has lamps for the back lamp that all burn out
at 20k hours of usage. (short lived, if used constantly)

other tests are: ask

• boot from free linux disk see of screen works?
• replace coin cell battery they usually don't last 10 years. 7 max.
• power pack bad and is weak, some fail weak
• keep in mind black screen failures have many causes.
• bad power, bad screen, shorts inside the pc, bad RAM.
• also the GPU chips in 2008 were bad, defective, solder ball failures. making the screen dead or very odd.

here is a black screen page.

http://pcdied.com/black-screen.html#Laptop


HP is the best maker of PC.s (not custom made as I do)
but has best docs.
but they do have 1 weakness, BIOS docs and Beep/blink codes
horrible support there, due to changing the rules 20 times. or more.
HP also modified the BIOS to their needs, making generic lookups
on say Award BIOS useless.. ouch.
The older the PC the worse this gets, books covering that.

Wow, that's crazy, because I would have bet it was the power supply too. I would measure the new supply voltages, just to make sure it isn't bad too. Next, unplug all extra devices except your motherboard and hard drive. This will eliminate them from the problem, and if one of them is bad, you'll know. Hard drive is probably good, but when the computer initializes the cd, dvd drive, etc., it overloads the power supply and it shuts down, as they're designed to do. Could be a part of the motherboard, but don't think so, just doesn't sound like it. Might be monitor, notice if the computer shuts down just after it turns on. Check the speaker wires to make sure they're not shorted (if happens once in a blue moon). I don't think connecting to MSIE 8 shut it down, but that's the onery thing about computers- you just never know till you know. An afterthought, is since I guess you were having problems before (hence changing the power supply), you could have gotten infected with a bug of some kind, that left it's mark in your bios. In that case, you have to reflash your bios, or have it replaced (on older machines). If it comes to that, you might google the problem of flashing your bios on your Gateway, and see what comes up. Good luck, I had a blue screen problem once similar to this, and just scrapped the system for a new one.

ASPIRE ONE BIOS FLASH RECOVERY

First format an USB stick with FAT.

Download the latest BIOS, and put both FLASHIT.EXE and the BIOS file in the root directory of the stick. Rename the BIOS file to ZG5IA32.FD, that's important. Do not remove the USB stick.

Turn the AA1 off, make sure both battery and AC adapter are connected. Press Fn+Esc, keep it pressed and press the power button to turn the AA1 on. Release Fn+Esc after a few seconds, the power button will be blinking. Press the power button once. The AA1 will now initiate the BIOS flash, do not interrupt it under any circumstances. After a while the power button will stop blinking, and the AA1 will reboot shortly after. Wait patiently.

The BIOS has been flashed and all settings reset to default.

If for some reason you made a mistake during the procedure and it doesn't reboot by itself wait 5 minutes before turning it off, just to be safe that it isn't still flashing the BIOS.

You can find the BIOS download here:

http://support.acer.com/drivers_download.aspx

could be a 'gray market' machine! i've run into this before- basically 'your motherboard/bios' doesn't exist- good luck! boot up should show what your bios version is, look for that, rather than your motherboard version!
'my computer'- 'properties'- should have your bios info on it. use that info to find updated 'flash', if it's available.
good luck!

Does bios see the amount of ram that you are putting in? Press F2 when powering up and check to see if the bios is indicating ram amount as what you installed! Let me know what happens.

It sounds like the motherboard is bad. There is no power being sent to the fan and that means that somewhere in the the mother board is not sending the info.

Tell me what the machine is doing exactly when you hit the power button. ie... do lights come on, do they flash, does it beep, can you hear the hard drive start, or nothing, just dead.