Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop

[sam]

Help guy's,

I was updating bios for dell insprion 7000 laptop. During this update,
somehow the program got stuck in loop. After 5 min. i had no choice to
unplug it. Since than i can not have anything on screen. Looks like bios is
flushed. My question is; Is there way to bring default bios setting in
laptops. I know that we can do that in desktop but not quite sure with
laptop.

So far I have open the laptop could not find cmos battery. Take out every
part than put it together after 30 min. still same. Any suggestion will be
appreciate.

thanks
sam

 

[kony]

Help guy's,

I was updating bios for dell insprion 7000 laptop. During this update,
somehow the program got stuck in loop. After 5 min. i had no choice to
unplug it. Since than i can not have anything on screen. Looks like bios is
flushed. My question is; Is there way to bring default bios setting in
laptops. I know that we can do that in desktop but not quite sure with
laptop.

Default bios settings depend on reading the bios from the
EEPROM. Your system may have gotten stuck WHILE writing to
the EEPROM so there is potentially nothing (or not all of it
intact) to read from the EEPROM. There may be no data, no
"defaults" to load because it doesn't have a complete (if
any) bios now.

So far I have open the laptop could not find cmos battery. Take out every
part than put it together after 30 min. still same. Any suggestion will be
appreciate.

Can't tell you where a battery might be but maybe a Dell
service rep can. How about a socketed EEPROM (bios chip),
did you see one?

 

[Clark]

Can you boot to a floppy or bootable CD? (F12)

Can you get to the setup page (F2 on my 600m)

If you can boot to anything, you could make a bootable CD and put the bios
update on it to run it from the CD.

I keep thinking there was a special key for bios problems, but I can't
remember. If you have your owners manual, you might look there and on the
website. If the bios is messed up from the flash, pulling the battery or
anything short of getting it re-written (or replaced) will do no good.

Clark

 

[Clark]

Oh, I forgot. Just in case, have you run through the display selections or
tried putting on an external monitor?

Clark