Posts by Druthlen

No bricked, sold for parts.

System ordered from rjtech.com Personal Feelings: Out of box experience was pretty cool. I have a Mac Book Pro and construction does not seem anywhere near comparision. I put a cd in and the thing could be heared spinning and making a...

System ordered from rjtech.com Personal Feelings: Out of box experience was pretty cool. I have a Mac Book Pro and construction does not seem anywhere near comparision. I put a cd in and the thing could be heared spinning and making a...

I just replaced the MB due to a bios issue and I now have a white screen. This is a m5500i-r3. Im cooking the graphics card as we speak. Any other suggestion?

Well Windows 7 was infact an issue. It was not creating the crisis recovery disk. I loaded a emulation of windows xp and it loaded a crisis recovery disk just fine. Unfortunately, I still cant recover the bios. I bought a battery and it...

Good idea. I have a windows xp box. Ill try that.

Thank you for replying. The card was working perfectly with the 1556 bios. It bricked when I upgraded the bios and hit enter to reboot and it was doing this. I cant seem to get it to access usb. It does try to access the cd drive but no...

That was actually very helpful. I now know that the bios flash didnt fail. The Video card I have in there is a 8600m GT. This is not the card the machine shipped with. The previous owner flashed the bios with the amilo pi 1556 bios...

I downloaded it from this website. It said it was 2.06 for m5550. I have m5500i-r3 which is supposedly a m5550. I did some digging and this motherboard is the same one used in a almio PI 1556. The bios chip is sst 39vf088. I found a...

I ran the update for bios 2.06 and now my computer wont boot. It powers on. caps scroll and numlock lights are on. The HDD access for a sec and then it reboots. It does this over and over again. Druthlen