Flash bios please help

[triplemaya]

Hi

I have an A30p, and I need to flash the bios. The problem is that the reason I need to flash the bios is that the screen shows only garbled characters on the basic boot up screens. This means that I cannot read the instructions when flashing the bios. The only real problem is that I don't know what the instructions are going to be, or I could do it 'blind'. So, does anyone know what I need to put in as the process runs? I can make sense of the first screen where the second option is to 'update system program', but I have not dared to go any further. If someone could tell me the sequence of instructions I would be very grateful. Best of ALL would be the location of a manual which describes the sequence of screens with pictures, but I have searched and searched IBM's site without success.

Please help if you can. Thanks

[K. Eng]

Are you able to use an external display??? I know that is a long shot if you can't even get into windows...

[triplemaya]

External display doesn't help, it has the exact same problem. The problem is clearly with the graphics driver at a low level, and nothing to do with the display itself. I can run windows ok, but the display is corrupt. Runs Linux perfectly!