by hikaru » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:44 pm
I'm not absolutely sure because a hardware-reset was not yet necessary on my notebook and I don't want to test it, as I made some changes in my BIOS.
But it is the standard way of doing a hardware-reset. And I can't imagine, why it should be different with the Si 1520 or the Li 1705.
@moon_shadow:
Do other Fn-combinations work? Maybe it is not the key-combination that doesn't work, but the display/graphics-chip that just isn't responding.
@Denys:
A hardware-reset restores the manufacturers settings of a working BIOS. But you seem not to have a working BIOS, I think this is the reason why the reset doesn't work.
On a desktop-PC I would recommend to exchange the BIOS-chip, but on a notebook it is not that easy.
A crashed BIOS normally cannot be restored by the user. I think you should contact the support and ask them what to do. Most likely they will ask you to send in the notebook and exchange the whole mainboard. A BIOS-update is not guaranty-compliant, so you will have to pay for it.
There are some descriptions of how to reflash a broken BIOS on the internet, but they are all quite complicated and success is unsure.
Until now I only flashed a few desktop-PCs without having any problems. So I can't really help you at this point.