I recently acquired an Asus Vivobook s400ca with a broken screen. The idea was to turn it into a Win 7 media center machine by outputting to my HDTV via hdmi.
I had everything working and set up properly and then decided to update the bios. I used the Asus Winflash bios update tool and everything appeared to work fine. The tool rebooted the machine and that's when nothing seemed to work anymore.
I had previously disabled Secure Boot Control and enabled Compatibility Support Module. I believe the flashed bios probably reverted these back to default.
Now the main problem is the output to my external monitor is no longer working. Since the screen is shattered and the external monitor isn't functioning, I can no longer see anything.
I have tried both the vga and hdmi and get no output. I have tried all combinations of pulling CMOS battery, pulling laptop battery, changing hard drive, not using a hard drive and trying to use an external dvd drive to boot Window 7. Nothing seems to do anything. I don't appear to be entering the bios (unfortunately I can't see anything to confirm this). When I power on, there appears to be a brief flutter of hard drive light activity then it stops. I believe there is probably some error message on the screen but I have no way of seeing what it is.
I am all out of ideas and would greatly appreciate any help that is offered.
I had everything working and set up properly and then decided to update the bios. I used the Asus Winflash bios update tool and everything appeared to work fine. The tool rebooted the machine and that's when nothing seemed to work anymore.
I had previously disabled Secure Boot Control and enabled Compatibility Support Module. I believe the flashed bios probably reverted these back to default.
Now the main problem is the output to my external monitor is no longer working. Since the screen is shattered and the external monitor isn't functioning, I can no longer see anything.
I have tried both the vga and hdmi and get no output. I have tried all combinations of pulling CMOS battery, pulling laptop battery, changing hard drive, not using a hard drive and trying to use an external dvd drive to boot Window 7. Nothing seems to do anything. I don't appear to be entering the bios (unfortunately I can't see anything to confirm this). When I power on, there appears to be a brief flutter of hard drive light activity then it stops. I believe there is probably some error message on the screen but I have no way of seeing what it is.
I am all out of ideas and would greatly appreciate any help that is offered.
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