HP Elitebook 8560p - dead

[blazzelia]

Hi guys and A Happy New Year!

I have an HP Elitebook 8560p which, according to, supposedly, the original owner, died during a BIOS update. At the moment when I got it, the laptop would start from time to time, most of the time though it would blink CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK.

At some point I was able to enter CMOS setup, to run a memory test, to access the information page and it even tried to boot. There was no drive in it so no luck with that.
After trying some WIN-B/WIN-V tricks, I was not able to start it again. The laptop only blinks CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK for 5 times and then starts the fan at maximum RPM and that's all.
I stripped everything from it - wireless card, modem, memory, CDROM - same story.

At that point I decided to replace the BIOS chip. Having the same exact chip model, I grabbed a BIOS dump for this laptop, wrote the chip and replace it. There is no change - same 5 blinks and turbo fan after that.

So, has anyone any idea what the problem could be? One more thing - it's doing the same light code even with no memory installed.


Thanks,

B

[peste]

Re: HP Elitebook 8560p - dead

Try other bios ... give a search, there are a lot here ... clean my region to the original one ..

[blazzelia]

Re: HP Elitebook 8560p - dead

Try other bios ... give a search, there are a lot here ... clean my region to the original one ..

I actually found one BIOS dump here, called "8560p_Clear me.bin" which is 1KB larger than 8MB which is the size of the BIOS chip. Obviously, it didn't fit in the chip. So I just got the one from https://www.laboneinside.com/hp-elit...560p-bios-bin/


What do you mean by "clean my region to the original one" ?

Thanks.

[peste]

Re: HP Elitebook 8560p - dead

sorry "clean me region" ....