read faqs, bios update stopping 1/4 of the way into it, what is wrong?

smokejag

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Jan 30, 2005
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I've read everything for the last 3 hours and cannot find a single thing that shows me what is wrong with this. I had a friend do most the work on it and it was working fine, even had the dashboard and a game on it. Turned it off came back and now it only boots to the bios flash area and wants me to load a bios. I found 1959 and upload it using the http site on the chip. The progress bar stops 1/4 into it and the power led flashes green and orange. Obviously turning it of royaly messed it up so now i can only do the power/eject to turn it on and get it to boot at all. Seriously frustrated... :(
 

Vyrus

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Dec 30, 2004
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I think this problem is being caused by a bad soldering job. Recheck your solder joints for any loose connections.
 

somekindazombie

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Oct 14, 2004
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Illinois
Would this be a symptom of a bad HDD or LAN solder point? I unfortunately have the same problem only I used a xapt3r. The only points I soldered were the HDD and LAN points.