Oh, were you running on battery? Or plugged into the wall...

Those notebooks are power hogs (less than 2 hours on a charge)

If you lost power or even got close it could really mess things up...

oh, i am so sorry for giving you the wrong advice. Please know that i was only trying to help, I feel badly about the trouble you went through.

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 still power in there or something?

Oh yeah, the update was direct from hp.com. I'll look, but I don't think I have a link for that, I just know it had: "For model: HP Pavilion ze5155 running Windows XP" and that it was at hp.com.

Now, you say about some disk that needs to be burned? Could you burn that disk and mail it to me? Or, do I need to purchase this disk? Well, by running a disk I am not sure what you mean. I tried a boot floppy and a Windows XP recovery disk, and no activity other than the drives reading the disks occurred. No computer reaction.

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, since I am starting to hate that organization...lol.

Rockman,
We are all just trying to help...
Sometimes the questions are crystal clear and sometimes they are not...
Sometimes we go by intuition and get lucky...
Even if your response did not fix the problem it could not hurt...
Personally, I think he will be pulling the bios chip and a little experience tearing his laptop down is not a bad thing...

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 messanger product? I currently have Yahoo and AIM installed, and I think that just a group conversation between me, moderate_rock48, and thong_inspector may help find the problem. My instant message for Yahoo is sixflags_overgeorgia.

I just did a quick check and http://www.biosman.com/ offers replacment bios for $25 including shipping...

Their site says 1 in 100 flashes fail and result in a dead motherboard...

I dont know if they do HP, but I am sure someone does...

Nick
Did you see a removeable BIOS chip when you had it apart

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 further than that...but you think I need to get a new BIOS chip. Is my BIOS a dual?

Sorry but I don't do IM anything..
Besides this public forum helps everyone....

Here are a couple more sites that do replacement bios chips...
FlashBIOS.org, BIOS Wizard, and BadFlash.com,

I can only offer an opinion, I think you lost your BIOS and nothing can be done...

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 that. I never thought of anything with BIOS. Now, would HP carry this BIOS chip? I also read for an extra 10 bucks they will determine the appropriabe BIOS chip by me sending in my current BIOS chip?

Oh, the IM thing, I am fine with not using it...I didn't know if this problem would go on and on, and if IM would get the "diangnosis" done quicklier. Thanks for all your support though!