Hi.
As you might guess my ASUS N550JV laptop got bricked.
I was not doing a BIOS flash or mod.
I had just succesfully finished installing a new SSD, installed windows, booted ok.
Then I reinstalled the original drive as secondary and changed a boot setting on the BIOS, saved and exit and that was it...
No more asus logo, no nothing.
Problem is consistent with this description for a different ASUS laptop from another guy (and I'm also out of warranty).
I'm an experienced tech guy and though I don't repair computers anymore I used to do it for several years, so I tried everything I could think of and some more.
What I've tried/did so far:
- Removed everything (BAT, HDD, SSD, etc.)
- Reset Bios (both by what I assume is the reset button and by unpplugging the BIOS bat)
- Every usual key combination you might think of (F2, F10, CTRL + ESC, etc. etc.)
- Several BIOS recovery procedures described in this forums and others.
What I've found so far...
Normal behaviour now is I switch the laptop on and the keyboard lights switch on inmediately for a couple of seconds, fans start spinning and the laptop stays like that with only power led on and fans spinning.
The only thing that produces something different is switching the computer on while pressing CTRL + HOME
When I do that the USB port gets read.
I tried to put different BIOS images on a pendrive following AMI and Insyde recovery procedures (Also tried AWARD just in case)
As I have access to an identical second (working) laptop, I checked and suspect the BIOS is AMI.
I attached a picture of the working laptop BIOS in the end of this post.
I used several BIOS downloaded from the ASUS site and a dump from the second laptop done using AMIBIOS_and_Aptio_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility
When I use an empty pendrive and with most of the filenames tried, the pendrive gets accessed for about 30 seconds and then keyboard light switch on and laptop keeps dead just the same.
Using "Andy's tool" I get recovery names "N550JV.bin" and "N550JV.207"
I perceived that if I use "N550JV.bin", instead of accessing the pendrive for 30 seconds, it gets accessed for about 10 seconds but still produces the same result: none!
BIOS names I've tried so far:
N550JV.bin
N550JV.207
AMIBOOT.ROM
Also tried the original downloaded BIOS names:
N550JVAS.208
N550JVAS.203
And just in case...
N550JVAS.207
N550JV.208
I've tried puting a bunch of files with different names on the pendrive and also individually.
I just don't know what else can I try other than flashing the BIOS chip on an EPROM programmer (wich I'm trying to find anyway)
I've attached the BIOS dump image from the working laptop.
ANY HELP/IDEAS ?
Please!!
BIOS Dump.rar (Size: 2.12 MB / Downloads: 101)
As you might guess my ASUS N550JV laptop got bricked.
I was not doing a BIOS flash or mod.
I had just succesfully finished installing a new SSD, installed windows, booted ok.
Then I reinstalled the original drive as secondary and changed a boot setting on the BIOS, saved and exit and that was it...
No more asus logo, no nothing.
Problem is consistent with this description for a different ASUS laptop from another guy (and I'm also out of warranty).
I'm an experienced tech guy and though I don't repair computers anymore I used to do it for several years, so I tried everything I could think of and some more.
What I've tried/did so far:
- Removed everything (BAT, HDD, SSD, etc.)
- Reset Bios (both by what I assume is the reset button and by unpplugging the BIOS bat)
- Every usual key combination you might think of (F2, F10, CTRL + ESC, etc. etc.)
- Several BIOS recovery procedures described in this forums and others.
What I've found so far...
Normal behaviour now is I switch the laptop on and the keyboard lights switch on inmediately for a couple of seconds, fans start spinning and the laptop stays like that with only power led on and fans spinning.
The only thing that produces something different is switching the computer on while pressing CTRL + HOME
When I do that the USB port gets read.
I tried to put different BIOS images on a pendrive following AMI and Insyde recovery procedures (Also tried AWARD just in case)
As I have access to an identical second (working) laptop, I checked and suspect the BIOS is AMI.
I attached a picture of the working laptop BIOS in the end of this post.
I used several BIOS downloaded from the ASUS site and a dump from the second laptop done using AMIBIOS_and_Aptio_AMI_Firmware_Update_Utility
When I use an empty pendrive and with most of the filenames tried, the pendrive gets accessed for about 30 seconds and then keyboard light switch on and laptop keeps dead just the same.
Using "Andy's tool" I get recovery names "N550JV.bin" and "N550JV.207"
I perceived that if I use "N550JV.bin", instead of accessing the pendrive for 30 seconds, it gets accessed for about 10 seconds but still produces the same result: none!
BIOS names I've tried so far:
N550JV.bin
N550JV.207
AMIBOOT.ROM
Also tried the original downloaded BIOS names:
N550JVAS.208
N550JVAS.203
And just in case...
N550JVAS.207
N550JV.208
I've tried puting a bunch of files with different names on the pendrive and also individually.
I just don't know what else can I try other than flashing the BIOS chip on an EPROM programmer (wich I'm trying to find anyway)
I've attached the BIOS dump image from the working laptop.
ANY HELP/IDEAS ?
Please!!
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