Dell Laptop Problem

[Jawz]

Hey all, My friend has a Dell laptop he's having problems with and I figured maybe you guys could help.

He has a Dell Inspiron 8000 (Phoenix bios we think) and he flashed his bios the other day and now he's having problems. Here's what he's done...

1. Flashed his bios from v9 to v13 successfully

2. Flashed his bios from v13 to v22 .. and now the problem begins.

When he powers up the laptop, he gets the lights to come on, but no fans spin and nothing else happens. After 3-5 seconds, the lights go out. (display never comes on)

So, we assume it was a bad flash, but I thought he should be able to boot and maybe get a checksum error or something.

Anyway, he cant do anything right now it appears. And I figured he has a bad bios chip now, but Dell says he needs a new bios chip and a new motherboard. But I think they are just trying to screw him over cuz its not under warrantee anymore ( or they just dont know ).

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

[Kasteo]

I seem to be a bad flash. I use the have the same problem when I try to play around with my own hack bios.
You won't get any error messages or even boot screen when you have a bad flash bios.

[delusion_]

Hey all, My friend has a Dell laptop he's having problems with and I figured maybe you guys could help.

He has a Dell Inspiron 8000 (Phoenix bios we think) and he flashed his bios the other day and now he's having problems. Here's what he's done...

1. Flashed his bios from v9 to v13 successfully

2. Flashed his bios from v13 to v22 .. and now the problem begins.

When he powers up the laptop, he gets the lights to come on, but no fans spin and nothing else happens. After 3-5 seconds, the lights go out. (display never comes on)

So, we assume it was a bad flash, but I thought he should be able to boot and maybe get a checksum error or something.

Anyway, he cant do anything right now it appears. And I figured he has a bad bios chip now, but Dell says he needs a new bios chip and a new motherboard. But I think they are just trying to screw him over cuz its not under warrantee anymore ( or they just dont know ).

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
I might sound crazy, but I know of a _lot_ of people with I8000's that had the same problem, including myself. I had to purchase a brand new motherboard through Dell to finally get the problems fixed (and they wouldn't cover it under their warranty!) I really do believe there were major production or BIOS problems with the first runs of the I8000.

[asp006]

I agree it is a bad flash. And you can not extract it to try to reflash BIOS using another computer which is possible in case of Desktops. So you have to replace laptop's motherboard to get a new BIOS.

[Element]

Why did he flash the BIOS anyway? Was he having problems with the notebok that were addressed with newer releases of the BIOS?

[somms]

http://www.parts-people.com/images/products/8000_bios.JPG

http://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=item&id=361

You have two options. You can go the cheap way and try to just replace the BIOS chip (Requires soldering skills) or you could replace the entire I8000 system board.

http://www.parts-people.com/images/products/C800_mb_2.jpg

http://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=item&id=57