~Toughbooktalk~

Well, it's back up and running again. I'm throwing an OS at it in the meantime, and once I get it and drivers loaded, I'll see if I can't keep it reliably booting. When I get in the belly of the beast to prod at the battery tonight, I'll disconnect and reconnect things I can in the event that someth...

Well, it turns out the issue is more intermittent than I thought. After replacing the hard drive to try a Windows 7 install (without destroying the install it came with) it required the dance with the external monitor to get it to boot again. Went into the BIOS and toggled external/internal monitor,...

Well, I've managed to solve this problem in a remarkably counter intuitive way. I was prodding around in the BIOS and swapped the display preference from "internal" to "external" and now it boots just fine! Figured I'd post this solution here for anyone in future having a similar...

Well, isn't that annoying.

I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can't make it do anything -- Failing that, I'll talk to the prior owner!

Thank you for your time!

That could be it, although these machines were, to my knowledge, previously used in lab conditions (for testing) though they could have been testing field conditions. It seems odd that there's no way to change the settings for this in the BIOS, but I've been through the whole shebang and doesn't see...

Thank you for the assistance -- my apologize for the terse reply last night, I was posting from my phone. So it seems I'm backed into a corner. Do you think that a strange boot issue like this could be caused by anything other than the BIOS? I'm trying to exhaust all of my options for diagnosis befo...

I have just tried. Same result. Prohibited to update the bios.

Just tried with the -im switch and it gave me the same error message. "ERROR It is prohibited to update this BIOS." exact command run was "bu19m3 -im v301l22.193" Running "bu19m3 -rchk v301l22.193" returns "Current 3.00-L09CM21, expected 22.93-L22M00" Thanks a...

Right, so I've attempted to flash the BIOS, and am not having any success. I created a FreeDOS bootable USB drive, with the bios file and update utility, boot to it, and attempt to run the BIOS update. I receive the error message "ERROR It is prohibited to update this BIOS." Current versio...

Thank you very much! I'll give that a shot and see if it resolves the problem!

Cheers!