Bios flash failed on M5550-R3 need help

Hello guys,

I need your help. I have a Fujitsu Siemens 1556, which is similar to the M5550-R3. I have a Quadro 770M in it and it worked mighty fine, scored 6130 points in 06. But now I had the stupid idea to perform a winphlash bios update. I know, I know, it's a definite recipe for desaster, I should have known better. (note to oneself: never do that again, idiot). Needless to say, the flash failed and bricked the machine.

Since the Bios chip is soldered to the mainboard, the only method to recover the bios is the Phoenix crisis bios recovery disk method.

So, I downloaded the tool and made the according recovery disk with the bios, renamed it to bios.wph and so on, and basically did everything according to the various guides here on the interwebs. Connected the floppy drive, pressed Ctrl+Home (read on the German FuSi forum that this combo is supposed to work, or that at least the drive gets accessed, the thread opener wasn't successful either).

The drive does indeed work for around 2 minutes, but then it stops, and nothing happens anymore. I waited more than a full 20 minutes, and then turned the laptop off, hoping that the recovery was successful, but alas it failed, or didn't take place at all. You can't check, since you have no screen output at this stage.

Does anyone know how to handle this problem, or knows someone who knows how to fix it? Is there some kind of jumper on the mainboard which needs to be activated, or any other "magic trick"?

I tried several other key combos, but they don't so shit, the only combo that seems to access the floppy ist ctrl+home...

Any input is appreciated guys.

Problem solved. Tried a different version and used a USB-stick, and it worked:
http://wincmd.ru/black_dog/v6535/crdisk.rar
The archive is password protected, the password is crisis.
Just follow the instructions of the various crisis guides and rename the bios to be flashed in BIOS.WPH and replace the existing file.
Hope this also helps somebody else...

Hey qhn, old friend! Remember me? I am the German guy you once made a disassembly guide for about the ARIMA W730 K8 to replace the power jack. Good to see you around again, how have you been keeping ?

Oh, you are in Germany at the moment, thats cool, make a stop over at the Oktoberfest and we could meet up, haha.
I'm doing great, I've been working as a personal coach teaching English to managers and executives for two language schools for the last two years , doing tons of translations and stuff like that, like my job very much.

Got my 1st FuSi-Alienware two weeks ago, my 2nd this weekend (the one I bricked). They are very cheap to get on ebay, since they gobble up graphic cards like crazy if you don't take care of them, so there are a lot of faulty ones on the market.
Both had defective GPUs which I replaced with Bios modded 770M Quadros (Bios mod to get rid of 30 secs prob and clock rate fix). The X1400 in the first machine I could revive with a heatgun, haven't tried the 7600 go yet.
My GPUs are nevertheless overclocked and undervolted (625/1500/880 at .89V), CPUs also undervolted, Copper Mod and MX-3 instead of thermal pad and they both run at 80°C on the GPU under full gaming load. Despite their age, still pretty decent gaming machines.