Need LAN/Computer Hacking Help - Page 2

kite · 05-11-2008

it's not gone permenantly, i'm just flying blind at the moment. the backscreen lights up when powered, but the screen is blank (yet still running and loads into windows). i did what's called a bad flash.

mm3 · 05-11-2008

Try hooking it up to an external monitor, anything displayed there?

kite · 11-11-2008

no, nothing.
any more info i could give you guys that could help?

element · 11-11-2008

Unfortunately, since the part of the boot process you're dealing with is long before any sort of networking stack is loaded, you really are flying blind here. My guess is that your only hope is to somehow flash the card back by typing and essentially hoping what you're typing is correct, since if the card's dead, it can't generate video output, and if it can't generate video output, you can't see what you're doing.

However, now that I think about it, if you can somehow make a DOS boot disk (I assume you're doing the BIOS flashing from DOS) that can boot up and load a networking or serial driver (serial is probably your best bet if your laptop has a serial port) and allow you to run the flashing commands remotely, then you might have a chance. A quick Google search led me to this and this.

kite · 11-11-2008

thank you so much element. looks like that could work. now i just need to get a day off...

Mazza · 13-11-2008

don't you mean you OC'd your laptop graphics card?and it went dead?
your screwed up your laptop, oh and you CAN change the graphics card for a new one if you have a laptop that allows that as some laptops dont have the gpu soldered to the motherboard they just have it stuck in a slot so that you can upgrade it.
you will need to take the hard drive out my friend and buy an external enclosure to copy your files the enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive is around 20-30 $ australia

NEJay · 15-11-2008

Have you tried booting with something that uses generic drivers?

If you have an upgraded video card, you should be able to default to using the original onboard graphics (and yes, most laptops have onboard graphics, unless you bought a laptop that uses a 7900GS as it's primary GPU). A boot disk, like an Ubuntu Live CD, should revert to using your onboard GPU, and should allow you to reflash your 7900GS using whatever Windoze prog you used running under WINE.

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05-11-2008	#11 (permalink)
kite VIP Historical Donor Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Massachusetts Age: 25 Posts: 998 Threads: 76 Gallery Uploads: 13 Wiki Edits: 2 Blog Entries: 11	it's not gone permenantly, i'm just flying blind at the moment. the backscreen lights up when powered, but the screen is blank (yet still running and loads into windows). i did what's called a bad flash.

05-11-2008	#12 (permalink)
mm3 Metal Militia Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: New York Age: 17 Posts: 1,011 Threads: 62 Gallery Uploads: 3 Wiki Edits: 3	Try hooking it up to an external monitor, anything displayed there?

11-11-2008	#13 (permalink)
kite VIP Historical Donor Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Massachusetts Age: 25 Posts: 998 Threads: 76 Gallery Uploads: 13 Wiki Edits: 2 Blog Entries: 11	no, nothing. any more info i could give you guys that could help?

11-11-2008	#14 (permalink)
element Regular Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UT/NY Age: 21 Posts: 30 Threads: 1 Reputation: 0	Unfortunately, since the part of the boot process you're dealing with is long before any sort of networking stack is loaded, you really are flying blind here. My guess is that your only hope is to somehow flash the card back by typing and essentially hoping what you're typing is correct, since if the card's dead, it can't generate video output, and if it can't generate video output, you can't see what you're doing. However, now that I think about it, if you can somehow make a DOS boot disk (I assume you're doing the BIOS flashing from DOS) that can boot up and load a networking or serial driver (serial is probably your best bet if your laptop has a serial port) and allow you to run the flashing commands remotely, then you might have a chance. A quick Google search led me to this and this.

11-11-2008	#15 (permalink)
kite VIP Historical Donor Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Massachusetts Age: 25 Posts: 998 Threads: 76 Gallery Uploads: 13 Wiki Edits: 2 Blog Entries: 11	thank you so much element. looks like that could work. now i just need to get a day off...

13-11-2008	#16 (permalink)
Mazza Regular Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Australia, South Australia (im not "Aussie"),im polish bloodline,born in aussie land Age: 15 Posts: 181 Threads: 11 Reputation: -1	don't you mean you OC'd your laptop graphics card?and it went dead? your screwed up your laptop, oh and you CAN change the graphics card for a new one if you have a laptop that allows that as some laptops dont have the gpu soldered to the motherboard they just have it stuck in a slot so that you can upgrade it. you will need to take the hard drive out my friend and buy an external enclosure to copy your files the enclosure for a 2.5" hard drive is around 20-30 $ australia

15-11-2008	#17 (permalink)
NEJay VIP Historical Donor Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Boston Area Posts: 133 Threads: 7	Have you tried booting with something that uses generic drivers? If you have an upgraded video card, you should be able to default to using the original onboard graphics (and yes, most laptops have onboard graphics, unless you bought a laptop that uses a 7900GS as it's primary GPU). A boot disk, like an Ubuntu Live CD, should revert to using your onboard GPU, and should allow you to reflash your 7900GS using whatever Windoze prog you used running under WINE.