AS A FINAL UPDATE:

I talked to HP Total Care and was directed to one of the highest available HP Corporate positions. I talked to a lady (who I was lead to believe was up with the CEO) and she...

I just gave it to someone that works on laptops that I know for sure can fix it. He said he would overlook it and fix the necessary problems. He charges around $75/hour and includes the charges to...

I just talked to HP and they said that the BIOS chip was embedded in the motherboard, and the entire motherboard needed replaced. The motherboard will be $550 to replace, and I think that it is...

Thanks so much, did you ever figure out if my model has a dual-BIOS or if the BIOS chip is soldered?

Update
I have thought the entire thing over, and talked a little more with HP Total Care (their fixing station), and I think I am going to to ahead and send it in and have HP fix it themselves. ...

HA HA, I just had to laugh...I did give HP a piece of my mind. I told them that if they were smart enough to actually know when someone is good enough to suppor their customers I will die. I told...

Ok,

Well, before I answer those questions, here is a link to where to order replacement parts for my product:

http://partsurfer.hp.com/cgi-bin/spi/main?sel_flg=modinfo&model=PAV_ZE5100

Now,...

Also, just in case you couldn't find my laptop on the HP website, I found it and got a link for it:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=214326&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us

Thong_Inspector,

What does "power filename ect" mean? I am sorry for being confused....I also went ahead and contacted the BIOSMAN website to ask if they carried BIOS replacement chips for HP...

This BIOS Flash utility, would this do anything for me?

http://www.biosman.com/bios_flash2.html

I am not afraid of spending any money. The problem is, I do not know which chip to buy or anything. I've built computers, and when I do so, I just screw the motherboard to the risers and thats...

Not that I recall. But I only tore down to a small portion of the motherboard. There were hundreds of layers of chipboards, and I saw the battery after tearing the keyboard out.

I didn't go any...

Suggest YIM Chat?

I really need this laptop quickly for work or need to know its fried and needing work, so I think that we can get answers transferred a whole lot quicklier with an instant...

Oh, I understand completely. You probably don't know a lot about my model of HP. I just can't believe it didn't work after all that trouble. I really don't want to have to send it back to HP,...

Well, I don't know what you really mean, but we took the actual battery for running the computer without power and unpluged the AC. Should we have waited 2 hours before opening it up? Is there...

Oh yeah, by the way, I wish I was informed this sooner, because I just took the entire laptop apart, took out the battery for 30 minutes, and put it back in and put the entire thing back...

Ok, I was having fan trouble, as I stated, so I emailed HP Support about it. They gave me some excutable to download that would update the version of the BIOS and fix that problem. I downloaded and...

Now, two questions, if it soldered on, how do I remove it without damaging the surface of the motherboard (knowing how sensative it is), and if it is not soldered, how do you remove it. Is there a...

Well, the only problem is that this laptop is about 2 years old, so I don't think the motherboard on it would be soldered.

I have a serious problem with my HP Pavilion ze5155. Let me start from the beginning of the story to give you the "full detail". I was interested in an HP Pavilion laptop, so I was recommended for...