Hi,

 

I have seen this subject posted a few times on these boards but they do not ease my worries.

 

I have an Inspiron 8500 with the Geforce 4400 64 meg video card. The problem being that I flashed the BIOS along with some updates my system needed.

 

I used the harddrive method which I have been informed is not advised. I read the instructions and closed all apps down and fired up the flash utility.

 

I was warned this would take a few seconds, but the seconds turned into minutes. After a while, I consulted the task manager which told me the flash app was "not responding".

 

I left it a bit longer and eventually closed windows down.

 

Anyway, my laptop won't boot with no display. The power light is on and I can hear the CPU fan.

 

My CD drive will accept disks and attempt to read them.

 

I have made a bootable CD with the DOS flasher, but the drive reads for a bit, then nothing.

 

I have seen on these boards that you need to remove the graphics card slighlty on post and then re-insert when attempting to re-flash with the boot disk.

 

Also, can somebody direct me to the instructions on removing the case to get to the graphics adapter?

 

Would a new graphics card sort things?

 

Cheers