Potted Meat

I have a Gateway NX570X notebook.

I'm searching for the procedure to force flash this BIOS with a USB floppy or USB drive, etc. The mainboard is Intel and the BIOS is Phoenix TrustedCore. The PC is a little over a year old. I've read countless forum posts about other brands having such a procedure but have been unable, after weeks of researching, to come across a procedure for a Gateway.

Edit: Full specs of the board are here:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/...6126Rsp2.shtml

I've contacted Gateway a dozen times but am met with robotic responses that have little to do with my issue. I also am slowly working my way to tech support people at Intel and Phoenix.

I'm hoping, however, that someone here has some insight to share.

Thanks so much!

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Potted Meat

Something of interest and possibly some progress...

I've read of several key combinations that when held before powering up initiate a recovery mode for several different brands. I've tried them all on this Gateway with no success. Well I'd been experimenting with different combos randomly and ran into a Windows + R key combo that impacts the system in some strange way.

I can't see any output and the computer doesn't even start POST. It powers up and stays up without the fan on but seems completely unresponsive. This sounds similar to the many other posts I've read about a force flash sequence but I just don't know what to do next.

Of course this could be some obscure bug and not a feature. The fact that it's the R key (Rescue, Recovery) makes we think twice about a coincidence.

Anyway, if any of you have ever force flashed or recovery flashed your BIOS, could you lend some advice as to what to try? Possibly a USB floppy drive which I've read some systems require for such a task.

Thanks

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looking.2008

Hi Potted meat did you ever get your problem resolved I have the same problem but have not been able to resolve it yet.. let me know.. if you can thanks