Dell Inspiron 518 Bricked, Help!

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I found a post on this site about updating the bios to full support xeon cpus and it bricked the machine. First I updated to the newest bios, rebooted and then ran the hacked bios, following the instructions and it errored out saying it failed to erase. Rebooted and no post. Is there anyway to recover? Here is the original post:

DELL Inspiron 518 Bios to support x5450 Xeon
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billycarter86 
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03-24-2016, 03:46 PM (This post was last modified: 11-13-2016, 08:57 PM by billycarter86. Edit Reason: Update bios capability)
**Props to DeathBringer for adding the microcode to the bios**

The Inspiron 518 with bios 1.0.8 has partial support out of the box for X5450.

DeathBringer has injected LGA 771 microcodes to get full support for X5450.

With these bios you will gain the full the full instruction set for the X5450 (VT-X, SSE4.1, CompareExchange128 etc)
If you own an Inspiron 518 and have an X5450, you will not be able to upgrade to Windows 10 without these instructions.

Attached are the modified bios.

Thanks DeathBringer for your time and work.

Instructions to install the bios (Very Important as Win Flash will p00p the bed if you do not pass bios name as a parameter)
1. Unpack all files to c:\bios
2. Run cmd with admin rights.
3. Do in command line: cd c:\bios
Then type in: WinFlash 7C1D1P29.BIN

This should unpack and ask you to update bios.

After installation do a restart and you should be in business!

Before and after pics included along with error if you don't follow the instructions.

BTW CPUZ reads X5450 as E5450 at top but bios and the rest of CPUZ are correct**

*****As of 11/10/2016 I was made aware by DeathBringer that these bios support all X5400 series xeons on the inspiron 518.*****

As always,
Thank you Bios-Mods community.