As the owner of this Dell laptop I would like to extend my gratitude and thanks to Sorin for having the skill and knowledge to be able to bring it back to life. You are a true professional in what you do. I hope others find this video to be as interesting and informative as I did.

Thank you for sharing. I have been doing bios repair for a number years now mainly for family and friends. I am still learning and it's quite difficult to find certain manufacturers bios on line.I have learned from forums and other utubers like you and the like of NSC and others. Keep the good work and you are amazing.

You can set the Service Tag in BIOS. You need to enter bios and under service tag. You can finde the service tag in the old bios or under the Backcover. Also on Dell page. Nice Work.

Hardware & Software go hand in hand today (together). Personally, I feel that I am several steps behind in this field (software for current laptops) but if I acquire the appropriate programmers accompanied by their operation manual with well-detailed instructions to handle them, I could familiarize myself (I remember with nostalgia the manuals for oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, etc. ., from the old days). On the other hand, excellent intuition and analysis to solve this high quality device and for that very reason of its cost. Thank you very much for sharing. All the best.

That is awesome! Great to see the community on discord helping out with the bios chip to program it, nice.

he's a great technicien, he knew the exact problem instantly , big respect, i realy enjoy watching him and i learn alot from him

That's great, but same as with the xps we need more details on the bios cooking process. It's weird that service tag hasn't been asked and they are only asking random numbers from board. Please check you original bin file with the one they fixed and find out what changed. You only need a hex editor program to compare files.

im excited to sorin going on a path to learn software side bios fixes, im inspired as you should always learn and adapt and never let youself or others tell you otherwise.

Great video Sorin. Your skill and experience saved an expensive laptop from oblivion. I don't know how much you would charge for this, but it was worth it!

Thanks a lot., i always watch your tutorial to improve my skills,, from philippines😊😊

As an ex Dell warranty engineer, we used to have a bootable dos CD with the flash tool on it. Latitude and Inspiron boards were the same but we just flashed the replacement board with the correct BIOS and then use the service tag util to re-input the service tag.

I'm liking all the bios/firmware videos 😊

Can't believe you are able to pull the bios chip and repair it. What a technician!

It's just like I told you on the last live session chat... Those BIOS faults are not new, they've been there for many years before... and quite frequent on all Dell laptops, not only XPS and Precision, but also Inspiron and Vostro alike. Seen so many cases before, even under warranty, and strangely enough, Dell service usually chooses to replace the motherboards entirely when this happens (if it's a warranty case) or deem a no-fix outside of warranty... Crazy, I know, but that's the situation unfortunately...

Learn and teach us. best teacher ever

Hello thank you for the videos sir. Please keep them coming thanks.

Hi Sorin I know you have the SAS Vertyanov programmer and not sure if you know it has the ability to read and program SPI chips which is much faster than the CH341A, Nice work.

Glad You could fix it. Laptops are way more complicated to Fix but you made it look easy . 😊

Great repair! i use POGOpin to flash bios without desoldering WSON chip!

I have huge respect sorin, the fact that you try to improve your skill, see everything in repair as a challange and try to actually repair it the cool way and not only replace your videos are like a proper nice🤌netflix series for me

I worked at Dell as a support professional, the service tag number jtag is a number that we ask the customer if they call so we can see if there is still guarantee or not, we verify the name, adres ect. We also see which laptop it is and we can see how to troubleshoot that specific laptop. If it can't be solved by Phone and the laptop is still under guarantee then we sent a mecanic with for example a New motherboard and all the hardware needed to fix the problem. If a jtag number is not present the laptop still works fine there is no speed limit, the only thing you can't do is call support

Great video, I would like to know what equipment is necessary for such ''bios repair' jobs. Is there one kind of programmer, or multiple for different kind of chips, where to buy them, the best places to get the bios-bins etc.

Great Video Sorin enjoy your videos.

There must be a tool for DELL and HP as well to insert such info as service number and serial number even product number that can be provided by the sticker stickled on cover as i know the service number is a combination or a calculation of the manufacturing date printed on sticker thank you Sorin and love your videos they are always helpful you are a true school

I do find this kind of stuff interesting, but now I mostly watch just because I like watching sorin do his thing

Watching Sie-Tech a lot beside your channel who covered such kinds of fixes a lot in the past. Bios problems, caused by failed updates through Windows, seem to be very common on laptops these days. I guess once you now how to create the bios files yourself it can be a good business, even b2b.

The most interesting part for me personally is to find out what is actually causing data in bios chip to become corrupt!? This was never an issue with the older laptops. I can only guess that this has something to do with the process of production of the chips. Please share your thoughts! Thanks for another interesting video!

Sorin is Genius as always!

Thank you

Dealing with BIOS corruption will be more easy if first you try recovery methods. Long time ago was so called bootblock that can recover BIOS from image on floppy CD or HDD when triggered These days there are still methods to do that on UEFI , but every vendor implement it different. You need to have BIOS recovery file or stock BIOS image file on some media, on right path, then trigger recovery mode by some key press at startup or some other things required. If works then you don't need to deal with recovering serials,service tags, mac address etc. Don't know for newer models but if memory doesn't trick me on HP's was Win+B pressed when powering up and files must be on predefined path. On Dell's was keeping pressed Del and insert charger (no battery) or Ctrl+Esc

sir sorin You Should Clean Bios Me Region this might fix error at the startup . Use ME Analizer tool Just Drag and Drop your file to see what bios your usuing. I think your bios file is in initialized mode{here monufactor edit serial number to the laptop bios and other stuff }. you have to convert it to configured mode. this will fix all.

what is the tool you used for reading the bios chip and programing it?

Agreed, my wife's DELL has an intermittent fault with the charger - an original one. I don't know the value of the resistor in the plug, so, I didn't fix it ;). And, from time to time can be slower just because of that issue.

Another video, thanks sorin

Does the fan spin when the power button pressed ???

The service tag you can enter yourself in bios settings.

Where did you get the gyroscopic screwdriver, I tried looking at the Amazon list and your forum page though can't find it I'm in the USA btw

If I can suggest... the "badcaps" community is very active and usually some "veteran" can cook a bios and share it with anyone on the forum... also original dumps are very welcome ( just remove the windows key before posting it on the forum)

What if you just got another mother board, Would you have to change anything in the bios when using the old hard drive? Thank you

Hello I wanted to ask you how you managed to solve long screen post problem I had the same device and when I programmed the bios and entering service tag etc when I shutdown and try to turn on it take like 2 min to show anything on screen and I did try another 2 or 3 bin files with same problem

Those SOIC8 clips and cheapass CH341 programmers sure have saved a lot of time with laptops, only once had to replace the whole chip thanks to some weird EC/BIOS security stuff in zbook g5

i have a similar one....use usual charging port, not the Usb C/Thunderbolt for charging!!...otherwise u will pay a big prize in the future! next tip: try to find the option of "automatic bios update"...it will a big issue, if something goes wrong! just never flash a Bios chip without purpose! Never change a running system!

Yeah same here... looks like many many repairs going tru bios repairs. crazy

Hi Sorin, I've been following you for a while and I really enjoyed watching your videos. Recently my Dell laptop has the same issue that it won't start. When I press the power button, the keyboard light is on but nothing else. I did check the temperature of the CPU and chipset, they seem to be warm. I checked the main power, it's fine, the battery can be charged as well. One strange thing is that, the CPU gets warm even when I didn't press the power button. Is there any possibility that my BIOS also got some problem?

Is there no way to force a bios recovery? I think you press esc and control on power

good job

Hi Sorin what is the name of Flux using?

This one is an expensive laptop, i guess the repairing charge will be more than usual laptop. BTW great video 👍

I need help with a Toshiba L850 laptop that No display. The power LED comes on soon as the charger is plugged in. It does show battery charge LED also with battery inserted. Power LED turns off if power switch is held On. No display, no external 5 v on USB ports. Have tried RAM cards and CMOS battery. Any ideas please, could this be also a corrupt BIOS issue?

I hate were we come with 10 years, laptops become much more program dependable, and much more problematic in repair. Ones you could reprogram BIOS within a board, and this was the same BOIS, now it is SMD and have to be reprogramed for every motherboard separately

i have a lenovo laptop, when i plug in charger it delays to detect charger and then after 20mins it starts charging what can be the problem??

I'm interested in the Bois programer. Can I ask from where please

thank u !

Why didn't you get the bios file from dell website?

Recover memorey how to do that ? Battery is draining fast what to do ?

Bad batteries cause the starting problems, still it’s easy to start them. Hotkey combinations start it up, for each it is unique. Most common is F2 + pwr on.

Ill go to buy SVOD 4 to BIOS and SIO programming in a future... is expensive...

I too see BIOS corruption very often these days...all manufacturers. Another frequent failure is, that the BIOS freezes somehow. You have to disconnect the cmos batterie, and its working again....

I love your screwdriver. What is the make/model? Give us an affiliate code and I will be happy to use it.

Is that laptop based of 10'th (Comet Lake) gen of intel "i" CPU ? I wonder why it uses the old power cord plugin - the "wide" one ? Precisions are well made and if the BIOS/UEFI corruption is the common issue I recomend everyone to buy them. Its prettty easy to fix in contrast with faulty CPU for example. Beyond that they offer comonents not avaiable at other laptop familes like outstanding display panels, detachable graphics cards, good keyboards and pretty much more security implementations.

Why not update bios with usb flash?

When you suspect a bios issue, how do you know when to skip resetting bios (cutting off power to it) and go straight to rewriting the chip?

hello, Kindle recomend a good repair tool kit... I am going to learn repair.

hi sorin . i want bios file for dell precision 5530 i9-8th . 25q80dvig 8m. do you have ?

Sorin Uneori problema cu bios-ul nu este vina producatorului asa ca mi s-a intamplat sa am actualizat bios-ul care nu era potrivit pentru modelul Dell corect.

"the customer is always right" 🙂

Can somebody explain to me why the bios can not be reprogrammed while soldered to the motherboard? I heard somewhere that those usb programmers don't supply enough current on the 3.3V/1.8V line if that's the case couldn't one just jerry rig an external current supply to the programmers pin and save oneself the trouble of constantly having to de and re solder bios chips?

yea they are prety sweet i have a precision 5570 that dent in the heatsink does not look great at all those precision should have auto bios recovery from usb stick btw does not mather what kind of servicetag is in there as long as one is in the bios even if you fill in a completly wrong one stll wil work fine the original servicetag is on the bottom of the laptop

I have a dell precision 7560, but it's not have discrete graphic card, how do i upgrade one for my laptop?

Sorin one question, cant you use official bios from dell in this scenario?

Lets go special laptop for repair! :)

DELL high class laptops are very premium and fast but very complicated

Well. Corrupted bios isnt Dell only issue. I had bios issues even with Gigabyte DUAL BIOS motherboards.

How to identify bios chip on laptop motherboard

I think Windows is to blame for this one as they started pushing BIOS updates at some point which is insane, and most people dont wait for windows updates and just shutdown the machine

programmator with such device is able to operate bios chip at board, isn't it? why bios chip was get off from plate for reprogramming?

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There is no hardware or software guys anymore.. they combined all my friend...

best technician.....

SVOD 4 programmer can modify bios

You could have programmed the bios without disassembling the laptop. And the "cooking is only needed when the bios file is encrypted.

Try another time to save a bios.bin from chip, erase IC and restore same .bin file. Mani time for me working.

BlInitializeLibrary failed Oxc0000185 how to fix this error

Esehi 5530 bhi ye

Bro, my laptop is AMD, it has Radeon Vega 8 1gb graphics, I want to update the graphics, then do I have to buy a separate laptop graphics card, can I update only the graphics card? අයියේ මගේ Laptop එක AMD එකක් ඒකේ තියෙන්නේ Radeon Vega 8 1gb graphics මට graphics Update කරන්නඕනේ එතකොට මට වෙනම Laptop graphics card ගන්න තියනවද , මට graphics card එක විතරක් Update කරන්න පුලුවන්ද

dell used to be failsafe laptops shame

"these" days, not "those" days

great video and perfect explanation, i just subscribe to your channel dude can you pass me a bin from a 7560 dell precision I try to extract from dell exe but don't have success

Sana all basic repair Ang tanggap 😅

Pleas what is the programer name?

The bios was taken over to the point that it is admin protected on every thid how do i get around that? please do not tell me to do down load it will not alow me to press the enter key to install any thing!

Ye naye walehe

7530 8generation me aata

Ye 8 gene se uparke lug

This is sounding like programmed obsolescence.

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first comment , Good morning Sorin from Canada .

kkk even in TVs ...... O.o

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