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Postby moon_shadow » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:47 pm

i can't change the level of brightness after Bios Update. Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 doesn't work now :( Is it possible to restore the old BIOS.I have Amilo li1705 with Windows XP. Please help me : )
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Postby hikaru » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:42 pm

If you know, which BIOS you had before, you could download this version and install it again. But there is no way to restore "your" old BIOS.

If you don't know, which BIOS you had, just use other versions than your current one (try and error).
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Amilo Si 1520 BIOS restor

Postby Denys Chernyshkov » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:45 am

I have: Amilo Si 1520
BIOS: EPROM Phoenix

Afrer updete BIOS (I used FSC_BIOS_Windows_Flash__EXE____AMILO_Si1520_1_19__1009784.EXE ) my notebook dosn`t work: back screen, noise of DVD and cooler

What i must to do ????
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Postby hikaru » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:59 am

Does this mean, that you have no output on you display at all, or is it only Windows that does not show up?

A BIOS-flash is always risky. If you see absolutely nothing, maybe a hardware reset can help you.
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Postby moon_shadow » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:50 pm

hikaru wrote:maybe a hardware reset can help you.


How can I do this?
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Postby hikaru » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:52 pm

Remove battery and power supply an press the power button for 10 seconds.
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Is it work in Amilo Si 1520

Postby Denys Chernyshkov » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:38 pm

hikaru wrote:Remove battery and power supply an press the power button for 10 seconds.


Are you sure that this method is a functional at this model <Amilo Si 1520 BIOS EPROM Phoenyx>, because i tried and without any progress.
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Re: Is it work in Amilo Si 1520

Postby moon_shadow » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:52 pm

Denys Chernyshkov wrote:
hikaru wrote:Remove battery and power supply an press the power button for 10 seconds.


Are you sure that this method is a functional at this model <Amilo Si 1520 BIOS EPROM Phoenyx>, because i tried and without any progress.


me too
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Postby 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.
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Postby moon_shadow » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:56 pm

hikaru wrote:@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.



The other Fn-combinations work
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Postby hikaru » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:29 pm

I've just seen, that XP isn't officially supprted on the Li 1705.
Has the brightness-control worked with WinXP before you updated your BIOS?
Did you install any chipset drivers?
Is there a Keboard- or Launchmanager for other notebooks with your chipset?
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Postby moon_shadow » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:36 am

hikaru wrote:Has the brightness-control worked with WinXP before you updated your BIOS?


Yes :S
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Postby hikaru » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:23 pm

Try another BIOS! I'm at my wit's end.
Maybe you can find out what was your original BIOS by searching for it in the internet with respect to the type of your notebook, date of acquisition and maybe other individual specifications.

Asking the support for your original BIOS-version should also be possible if you can specify the registration number of your notebook.
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