Packard Bell S3280 flashing BIOS with USB stick (AMI bios)

[vrghost]

So picked up a Packard Bell S3280 on ebay, knowing there was a disk issue with it, turns out that it wasn't a disk issue, turns out that Windows 10 install tried to do something to the Bios, and broken it ten ways to Sunday.
Silly me, just wanted rid of Windows 10, and as the boot was messed up in such a bad way, I thought I could fix it by updating the BIOS, problem with this is that thanks to Windows 10 and whatever it had done, the ONLY thing that actually could boot was Windows 10, no USB or CDs. Which meant I tried to flash the bios in Windows 10. It broke, spectacularly.

So, now I have a machine that will give me a two beep code salute when I start it, then wait maybe 20 seconds, then give me another 9 or ten beeps, then some more beeps after a while, and a restart.

All in all it seems like this is a ROM partiy issue, which I think is caused by the initial flash failing, and not a hardware issue.

Created a boot USB stick with the latest firmware, renamed the PM file to P12-A1.CAP to AMIBOOT.ROM and tried to boot it, but while it seems to read the USB (flashing light) it does not seem to load it.

Any suggestions?

 

[hang-the-9]

Windows 10 should not have touched the BIOS, but whoever had the system before you did may have.

To re-flash the BIOS you'd have to replace the motherboard.

My suggestion for this system is to find when your recycle center had electronic device disposal days.

Packard Bell uses very low quality parts, not worth trying to fix. You can look up the beep codes on their support site, but you will likely see "motherboard issue" or "RAM slot" issue. Since the thing won't even boot up to where you can boot from an external disk, you can't try to flash the BIOS again.