Flashed Bios now Black Screen

B3astiie

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HI, just moments ago after during a clean installs of windows, I updated my bios and flashed. It rebooted and now there is a black screen and the scroll and caps lock has a light that blink once per interval.

I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC dv5-1100

Any Ideas or help to fix this issue?
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Toshiba Sattelite L645D
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
AMD Turion 2 N550 Dual Core Processor 2.60 GHz
Memory
8192 MBytes
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Mobility Radeon Hd 4200 series
Monitor(s) Displays
1
Screen Resolution
1366X768
Hard Drives
C: 286GBs
Internet Speed
12
Other Info
Let me know if you need anything else. I need to find a better spec reader.
Here's what those blinking lights mean: Blank Screen LED Error Codes | HP® Support From what I've read on there, if you haven't formatted the hard drive, boot your PC up and press and hold all four arrow keys. "If a BIOS authentication failure occurs, the computer automatically performs a BIOS recovery. If the computer does not automatically recover the BIOS, manually perform a BIOS recovery. To manually perform a BIOS recovery, press all four arrow keys at the same time to cause the BIOS to go to the EFI partition to find and recover the current BIOS."
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 x64
Nothing happens when I press all four keys, there is no sign or noise to let me know if it even noticed I pressed all four keys.

The light above the scroll lock and the other light next to the cap locks flash then goes out then flashes then goes out, continuously.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Toshiba Sattelite L645D
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
AMD Turion 2 N550 Dual Core Processor 2.60 GHz
Memory
8192 MBytes
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Mobility Radeon Hd 4200 series
Monitor(s) Displays
1
Screen Resolution
1366X768
Hard Drives
C: 286GBs
Internet Speed
12
Other Info
Let me know if you need anything else. I need to find a better spec reader.
I updated my bios and flashed

Whenever folks ask me about flashing their BIOS, I always tell them NOT do it unless BOTH of the following are true:
1) You have a way to save off the current working BIOS to a media that can be used later to restore it
2) You have a way to restore the previous work BIOS without having to boot into Windows.

IF you didn't back it off first, and have no way of restoring it -- you should not have flashed the BIOS because, unless there is a key combination that can be used to either restore it, or boot into a second BIOS chip, your PC has become an "electric brick".
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom
OS
Win7 Pro 32-bit, Win8 Pro 32-bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Motherboard
Gigabyte
Memory
4GB ddr3 1300
Graphics Card(s)
AMD HD 4290 onboard
Sound Card
Builtin Realtek HD Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Samsung 24" widescreen, LG 23" widescreen
Screen Resolution
1920x1200/1920x1080
Hard Drives
Kingston 256GB SSD
Keyboard
Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse
Logitech M705 wireless mouse
Antivirus
Norton Av 2013
Browser
IE v10
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