M18x r2 won't post. Svl17 unlocked bios.

Anyone familiar with svl17 and know if there's a fail-safe bios recovery? An option in the bios was enabled for the GPU and it now stopped booting. Now the computer just turns on for seconds and turns off. I took out the GPU and tried to start it and same deal. I've taken out the CMOS battery, same result. Blind flashing doesn't even work because for some reason the esata is not powering the USB drives. I find it hard to believe that a simple bio option can render an expensive notebook useless. Any ideas?
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My computer was rendered useless due to "wrong bio settings". Something enabled within the bios menu and when I pressed F10 it saved.

These are the steps I took:
- Tried on-off cycling by taking out the cord and the battery. I pressed the Alien "power button" to discharge the board for 30 seconds then I pressed FN while powering on the system with just the cord. No success, the system still powered up with all lights then shut down within 2 seconds before even posting.

- Then I tried the above method three times more, once with the cmos battery out, once with reseating ram and then last with both cmos battery and ram. Still no success.

- Opened up the laptop, took out the 980m GPU and tried starting the computer. Same result.

- Tried making a blind flash usb drive. Tried 3 different USB drives. The computer will power on by holding down the END key while plugging in the power cord, all fans will boost to the max but the USB drive won't read on the esata port or any usb port for that matter.

Right now, my computer sits there without any ram cards and thecmos battery out until I can find something else out. Like I said before, I really find it hard to believe that this much hassle came out of somebios settings

 

Usually cmos reset works (on all bioses) after some on-off cycle (for the first one, without battery and psu, hold power button about 12seconds to full discharge motherboard's condensators) also remove and re-seat the ram.

For blind flashing, hold FN before put on the laptop and assure the bios is in root of fat32 formatted usb.

What exactly step you did you do to be here? I don't understand, a wrong settings in bios or a bad flash?

 

I'm sorry about that @aaronne , the phone is a weird device to type on.

I'll post these in my OP so people can read it first.

 

Still trying to fix this laptop, so far I've left the ram and CMOS battery out for a day. Still no luck.

 

Do the following:
1. On a working computer, take a usb flash drive, and format it to FAT32 with default allocation settings.
2. Download my BIOS from this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/release-improved-m18x-r2-maxwell-legacy-bios.800447/
3. Copy ONLY M18R2.HDR from my package to the root of your newly formated flash drive.
4. Plug flash drive into esata port
5. remove main battery from m18x, leave CMOS battery in.
6. While holding END on the keyboard, plug in AC power. Leave your computer to work for about 10 minutes.

This is the procedure I use, and it works every time. If this doesn't work for you, you may have some low level BIOS corruption that can only be fixed by soldering a new chip on there or using a SPI hardware programmer.

 

@Raidriar My computer is flashed with your BIOS already. As I stated before, my computer became completely disabled from just a single GPU setting being enabled in my BIOS and this is only the first occurrence.
The eSATA port doesn't power on any usb device I'm plugging in. I've plugged in "older" versions like someone on another thread stated, then I even used slightly modern ones with led lights and those don't even light up.

After sitting still while being disassembled for the past few days, the only thing that's changed is that it now POSTS with 2 beeps when the RAM cartridges are out. Other than that, when the CMOS battery is in, and the ram cartridges are in. It just powers on and powers off. eSATA doesn't work so unless there's another way I guess i'm out of luck on blind flashing. I remember the first day this happened, I had it sitting there with a usb drive for almost a day with no beeps. As I'm typing this out, it's sitting there with no beeps for almost an hour.

So I guess, unless there's any other failsafe methods with your BIOS other than blind flashing, the only thing I can do is invest some money in a SPI programmer.

 

@Raidriar +rep. Although your response wasn't the solution to my problem perhaps someone else benefited from it.

On Amazon there's quite a few USB SPI programmers. Is there one you recommend?