Bricked Cq60-211dx

[fisniq]

if you let it sit long enough it will power down or restart. It should only start short beeping when it has the correct board id named to your bios bin file. Are you sure your flashing the correct bios image for your laptop?

Thanks for the reply! Sorry to bother you with a long post.. but maybe you'll need the details!

here's my story:

How it happened:

I was reverting from win10 to win7 (win 10 has the option to do so) and during the process, laptop rebooted once and it started up as a blank screen (screen backlight was ON but screen was black) and after about half hour letting it like that, I noticed it isn't even doing anything. I tried to turn it off but Power button didn't respond (even if holding for few seconds). The only way to turn it off was to remove the battery. Next time it gave me 2-blink led sequence which later I found out it is related to BIOS corruption.

What I tried so far:

Extracted the 363FF03.fd file from the BIOS setup (I tried all 3 versions available on HP site F03 F12 an F15) and tried recovering it with the following names: 363F.bin, 363.bin, F.bin (this one I got from PhoenixTool - it said F.BI? ), but none of these worked.. only a single or couple of beeps and reboot.
Then I read your post about board ID and there is a sticker on my laptop saying : REV. 3652-110... I gave it a try with 3652.bin and finally it beeped 5 times... then beeped 6 times after that, but with about 8 seconds pause between each beep....  then nothing..
So: .....___.___.___.___.___.___._. (notice the shorter beep in the end)
I let the laptop stay like that for an hour but it didn't shut down itself.

Am I missing something here?? 

p.s. 
- Laptop model: Compaq Presario CQ61-420EM
- I tried with 4GB usb formatted as FAT or FAT32.. I even partitioned it as 500MB only just to give it a try.

[tavishd]

try also 03652.bin and 3652.rom. try only with the latest bios f15.

[tavishd]

also try removing your cmos battery for a few minutes. This happened during a windows 10 install. Remove your hdd also and see if you can get into the bios. sounds like something uefi is corrup.

[BDMaster]

Hi mate,
Extract bios file from original installer file 363FF03.fd and rename It as (make multiple copies) :

363F.fd
363F.bin
3652.fd
3652.bin
F.BIN

Use the HP Tools UEFI to prepare the USB Stick and rename as HP_TOOLS It !
Then copy into the Recovery Files and use the recovery procedure to start It.

Let me know
Regards

[BDMaster]

Hi mate,
Extract bios file from original installer file 363FF03.fd and rename It as (make multiple copies) :

363F.fd
363F.bin
3652.fd
3652.bin
F.BIN

Use the HP Tools UEFI to prepare the USB Stick and rename as HP_TOOLS It !
Then copy into the Recovery Files and use the recovery procedure to start It.

Let me know
Regards

[fisniq]

Hi, and thanks!

@tavishd, I had no success with suggested filenames.. so far, the only name that made my laptop "react" was 3652.bin. 
As for the HDD and battery,  I did most tests without HDD being attached and I also tried leaving the battery out overnight.. with no success!!!

@BDMaster,  I read somewhere about creating the HP_TOOLS USB but I didn't find that utility for my Laptop model on the driver downloads section.. Does this mean that it doesn't support UEFI or I simply have to get the tool elsewhere? If so, can you please share a link?


I appreciate your effort for help guys as I'm running out of ideas.. and repair stores in my place here are not much of a hope! They only fix some "basic" stuff :/

[BDMaster]

Here You go :

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp48001-48500/sp48394.exe

Regards