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October 7th, 2014 12:00

Bricked Latitude E6400 after bios update

Hi, 

I unfortunatly tried to update the bios of a Latitude E6400 from version A20 to A34 and i got an error message at the end of the process. When i restarted the notebook, i got a black screen.

Is there a way to force install a new bios from a CD or a usb stick ? I tried the method of extracting the hdr and rom file from the exe and restart while holding the END key without success. Is there a solution other than replacing the main board ?

Thanks in advance

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    Posted October 9th, 2014 06:00

    Finally been able to reflash by using a 2 GB memory stick instead of the initial 4 GB.

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    Posted October 7th, 2014 14:00

    The other option is to unsolder the BIOS chip, flash it externally, and resolder it.  On a system this old, it may be less expensive to replace the mainboard.