T61 damaged bios

[TuuS]

I have a T61 with a failed bios flash that doesn't post when you try to boot it. It's a 14inch widescreen with nVidia. It's in almost new condition so I'd like to salvage it, is there anyway to fix this poor thing?

I know the manuals say replace system board, but I have a 15inch motherboard with a failed nVidia graphics, would it be possible to transplant the bios chip?

Are there any other methods of repair? any suggestions?

[ajkula66]

Swapping BIOS chips rarely works in real life. Let's leave it as that.

There's an advertisement somewhere on the forum for a company that restores machines with failed BIOS upgrades, and they got some good reviews, but the service was not inexpensive as far as I can recall...

My advice would be to part all of the defective machines out and be done with them, but that's me...

Good luck.

[TuuS]

I did go looking for a motherboard or damaged t61 to use to fix it and ended up buying a complete working model that even has a higher resolution screen for $140. The cheapest "cracked screen" I found was 125, which would have been an insane route to go. I'm also pleased that the new tp is intel based, not nvidia, but I still think I want to fix this pc.

I once looked into doing a bios password recovery and found a very good step by step guide. It required unsoldering the bios and using an eprom burner, I eventually decided it wasn't worth my time, but if I have a trashed systemboard with a good bios, and a laptop with a bad bios, seems silly to not try. The only thing I'm unsure of is one is 14 and the other is 15inch. That could be a problem.

Thanks for replying.

[ajkula66]

TuuS wrote:

The only thing I'm unsure of is one is 14 and the other is 15inch. That could be a problem.

That WILL be a problem AFAIK.