error code 175 [urgent]

[Synth3t1c]

so i was changing sometjhing in the bios of this old laptop when the power cord fell out (no battery). i turned it back on and i get error code 175. the cd drive starts up but it still shows that error code...

after research it is Bad EEPROM CRC (dont know what it is).

i read a cold reboot would work, well ive had it unplugged for up to 20 mins from all power (including cmos) and it still gives me the error. any ideas?

 

[SarverSystems]

EEPROM = Electronically Erasable Prgrammable Read Only Memory
CRC = Cyclic Redundancy Check

It is basically telling you that you hosed your BIOS chip (the EEPROM).

See if you can get a new BIOS put on CD or floppy and boot off of that, and see if you can update your BIOS that way.

If not, then you'll need to find someone with the same exact make/model laptop and swap them chips to get it booted up.

Good luck finding a friend willing to do that. And good like finding a friend with the same laptop. Also good luck even FINDING the BIOS chip, and pray that it isn't soldered to the board.

If I were you, I'd call up the manufacturer and see if there is a BIOS reset routine you could use to restore factory defaults.