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damaged bios...

Cozzy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:49:17 GMT

Hi,

I stupidly interupted a bios update on my Vaio AR21S, now It will not start, Anyone know where to download the bios and install?...

Adam

Re: damaged bios...

tonybeard — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:09:13 GMT

Welcome to the forum,
tap f1 or f2 on startup and go to advanced>Last known good configuration and try the bios update again...without interuption

Re: damaged bios...

Cozzy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:20:45 GMT

Hi Tony,

I can not get that far... The screen is just black, nothing. I beleive I need to download a bios and try to make a boot cd that will install it?

Re: damaged bios...

littlebucko — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:34:01 GMT

best thing to do m8 is on a diffrent computer go onto this link this is all the settings in order that you need to do (i hope to god u made a recovery disk) this is for your model and then pop the disk into your laptop and see if it works if
if you carnt do it then its work for the sony technicians

this is your instructions

Re: damaged bios...

Cozzy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:37:56 GMT

Thanks,

But guess what... no recovery disk. I had looked at those instructions but thought there may have been another way.

Adam

Re: damaged bios...

tonybeard — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:45:37 GMT

You'll find the bios and files you will needhere

Re: damaged bios...

littlebucko — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:52:49 GMT

hi tony they arnt on that as he needs the disks

adam best thing to do before you send it
go on e-support and ask if they can send you the bios in an email

Re: damaged bios...

Blencogo — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:00:50 GMT

Yes, littlebucko is right - contact Sony before you do anything else.

It is likely that your CMOS chip will need reprogramming or replacing and this is best done by Sony.

Re: damaged bios...

Cozzy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:46:04 GMT

Thanks Guys,

Have logged a call with Sony so will see what comes back.. Thanks for your thoughts.

Adam

Re: damaged bios...

Cozzy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:44:51 GMT

Just for anyone with the same problem, Sony had to take it in to rebuild the bios... Apparently nothing I could do to fix it.

Moral ?? Read the instuctions and DON'T power down whilst updating the bios...

Re: damaged bios...

tonybeard — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:30:00 GMT

Ummmm gentleman. Can I just let you know that I interupted the bios upgrade in the same way as my one year old shut down the system during the bios upgrade in exactly the same way. and recovered my bios by downloading the preinstalled utilities and bios update for my AR31S. Maybe mine wasn't as corrupted, as suggested the cmos was still intergral, but it was a black screener not booting up past the usb hub and I recovered the bios I booted off a bootable CD with the utilities and the bios update converted into an .iso When it comes to Vista miracles are possible and no one can yet claim to know or not know what is possible

Re: damaged bios...

littlebucko — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:51:20 GMT

cozzy the first thing you need to do now is create a boot disk (2 dvd's)
then you have a backup if anything happens again