Bios help with m17-r1

I recently tried updating the bios to zfactor .29 and failed miserably. Computer is now bricked. Turns on, but nothing on the screen. Is there anyone that can help with a way to get the bios working again?

 

Hopefully someone has a better answer for you, but I always thought the only option was to solder on a new pre-flashed BIOS chip or buy a new motherboard. I have never had a failed bios update though so I am not a pro. Have you at least tried the usual of taking parts out and putting them back in, using / not using the battery / AC adapter? Other than that I don't know if there is much you can do.

 

If you still have a problem with your bricked m17-r1, there is a quite simple solution to remove the SPI EEPROM from the mother board and reflash it with the original rom using a parallel port SPI programming interface, here is a link to the schematics, the setup is very simple requiring only basic electronics knowledge, a fine soldering iron and tons of care, you can use SPIPGM or SPIPGM2 with the /s parameter if you have an SST EEPROM (the flashing procedure is different) in a pure DOS enviroment (building a bootable USB key is not hard), the solder back the EEPROM, and you gonna revive your beastie. I have been doing this myself to many laptops and it really works, but just as a disclaimer, do this at your own risk.

I'm glad i can do something for the NBR forum community, because in return i will get valuable info to debug and tweak my PreDell M17-R1 Corp (Arima) beast myself.

 

As I said above soldering is probably the only option. Your reply was certainly very helpful though I would hesitate to call anything that involves soldering "simple"