weird issues with Razer Blade Pro (2012)

[baumy15]

i bought a second hand razer blade pro 2012 just before christmas to use as my new school laptop which was going great until recently.

i booted up my laptop to do some work and i had numerous "display driver has failed to initialize" messages and this was after installing a new nvidia driver, the laptop did that whenever i tried to do anything and would then crash with a white screen and a *tick* noise. since getting it to work i found very quickly the CPU fan was no longer spinning. after some DIY testing i found the fan does work but the PWM signal wasnt allowing the fan to work, as well as my laptop having a few issues when shutting down/restarting, it would rather do the white screen with the *tick* or just sit in a bugged sleep mode.

through my testing i have come to the conclusion that the bios has gone bad but not 100% sure on what it could be.

razer want over $1300 for repairs on a laptop i spend $1000 on and dont have money for a new laptop or repairs so im asking the LTT community if they have any ideas to what it could be or a copy of the bios i could use to reflash with.

 

Thanks for any help!

 

P.S it could possible make an interesting video linus...

[Lord_Karango17]

Dees the laptop turn on and stay on for a while right now? because that is probabally the only way you'd be able to reflash the bios right now. While I dont have the bios file to provide to you, I can provide the flashing utility I used to flash the bios in my 2014 blade.

AfuWin64.rar

[baumy15]

15 minutes ago, Lord_Karango17 said:

Dees the laptop turn on and stay on for a while right now? because that is probabally the only way you'd be able to reflash the bios right now. While I dont have the bios file to provide to you, I can provide the flashing utility I used to flash the bios in my 2014 blade.

AfuWin64.rar

yea, i can turn in on and it stays on (99% of the time anyway) but it i shut the lid or it goes to sleep i have to force shut it down. thanks for the flashing link, that was my next hurdle to jump, all i need now is the bios file which razer essentially want $920 for

[Lord_Karango17]

17 hours ago, baumy15 said:

yea, i can turn in on and it stays on (99% of the time anyway) but it i shut the lid or it goes to sleep i have to force shut it down. thanks for the flashing link, that was my next hurdle to jump, all i need now is the bios file which razer essentially want $920 for

Yeah that flashing program is able to save the bios file on another laptop for you to use, but you just need to find someone else with that laptop here which might be tough considering its age...

[baumy15]

1 hour ago, Lord_Karango17 said:

Yeah that flashing program is able to save the bios file on another laptop for you to use, but you just need to find someone else with that laptop here which might be tough considering its age...

im hoping someone on here will own one or know someone that owns one and will help me fix this.

 

thanks for your help