Alienware 17 R1 "ranger" - BIOS help

[nimh-simple]

• hello everyone, hope i can find help here...
  
  I have an Alienware 17 r1 (2014 -  "ranger" no internal graphics)
  it came originally with a gtx880m which died almost one year ago, so i replaced it with a gtx980m
  
  Everything was working fine until i " accidentally " modified the  UEFI options activating legacy mode but my new graphics cards does not boot in legacy, so now my laptop just beeps 7 times, black screen, cant access bios settings, no boot, nothing. Everything was working fine before that and no hardware changes have been made so im sure the screen is fine.
  
  now, getting a new 880m will cost me too much, so doing some research online I was wondering, could i dump my current bios and modify the settings back to UEFI? if so, could someone please send me information about this process.
  
  On the other hand, i have an old bios backup but im not sure how to deal with it, i dont want to make it worse since i have no experience with BIOS modding and i wouldnt be dealing with it if it wasnt extremely necessary.... like now =(
   
  My backup dates 2019 and i think i made it just after replacing graphic cards, i used a software called "BACKUP_Tools12_2.exe" and i got 4 .bin files around 4096kb each (x32_bios-region_9.1.2.1000.bin, x32_bios-region_9.5.14.1724.bin, x32_bios-region_9.6.0.1038.bin and x32_bios-region_10.0.30.1072.bin)
  
  I did some research,and following other users I bought a CH341A programmer which i hope its compatible with my laptop.
  
  Any help you guys could provide, will be much appreciated.
  
  Things i already tried and didnt work:
  Removing CMOS battery , removing and shorting battery pins
  Removing cmos battery and RAM, then reinserting it while reboot (memory error un-brick method)
  BIOS recovery using usb in e-sata port
  holding keys while reboot
  
  
  writing this from my emergency-only cracked screen lenovo laptop.
  
  thanks.
  

[Fern]

BIOS recovery using usb in e-sata portholding keys while reboot

copy file VAS00X64.fd to USB flash drive with FS FAT32

Unplug the battery

Plug USB flash drive to USB port/eSATA

Hold the END key on the keyboard and plug the power supply.

do not release the key pressed "end".


if laptop does not turn on automatically - turn laptop on yourself
release the key pressed "end" after 3 sec

waite 10 min then laptop automatically shut off and reboot.

[nimh-simple]

BIOS recovery using usb in e-sata portholding keys while reboot

copy file VAS00X64.fd to USB flash drive with FS FAT32

Unplug the battery

Plug USB flash drive to USB port/eSATA

Hold the END key on the keyboard and plug the power supply.

do not release the key pressed "end".


if laptop does not turn on automatically - turn laptop on yourself
release the key pressed "end" after 3 sec

waite 10 min then laptop automatically shut off and reboot.

Thanks for answering, but I tried that method without any luck, and I also noticed that it will restore the bios with legacy as default settings and as I wrote before, my gtx980m does not boot with that setting.

Thanks anyways

[Fern]

Maybe you need to change the parameters "Primary Display" to IGFX, IGD>Enabled and then to flash the bios via programer?
The laptop will turn on the integrated graphics into the processor. So we will understand whether the problem with the Nvidia chip or not.

Do you have a programmer?

[nimh-simple]

Maybe you need to change the parameters "Primary Display" to IGFX, IGD>Enabled and then to flash the bios via programer?
The laptop will turn on the integrated graphics into the processor. So we will understand whether the problem with the Nvidia chip or not.

Do you have a programmer?

Thanks for answering, yes i have a CH341A programmer  but my laptop doesnt have any integrated graphics unfortunatelly

[vannak@99]

Hello Dear,

I need yours help to recovery BIOS after crash freshing.
I tried your method with your attachment file USB in e-sata.

My Alienware 17 ( Sreen 60hz GTX 860m 2g) start turning on and restart with 8 beeps.
What should I do? Is there any other BIOS recover fit my Alienware 17?
I appreciate your helps.