Dell studio 1558

Question

I replaced the motherboard of my Dell laptop, and afterwards upon the testing of the newly attached motherboard, I can't open my laptop. Like when I open the laptop, it will suddenly die after a minute or sometimes a second. And there is a display saying: BIOS shadow VIDEO shadow No microcode update loaded for booting   Hope that you can help me with my concern. ‎

lloydcometa · Answer

Hi, thank you for your response.. I bought my motherboard along with its CPU in AliExpress, the seller test it before it shipped out and when I received it that is why I experienced.

ejn63 · Answer

There are a number of possibliities:

1. This is a 15 year old system, and that's a 15 year old replacement board. The replacement board could simply be faulty.

2. Whatever took out the original system board could have damaged the CPU -- is it known to be in working condition?

3. There were several Studio models released in quick succession -- are you certain the board you have is compatible with the CPU you have? If it's from an earlier model, it may not work with a next-generation CPU.

You may want to browse EBay, etc. for complete, guaranteed-working systems -- these systems are not worth very much used (possibly selling for less than the cost of a board). That would save you the trouble of returning boards, board-CPU mismatches, etc.

ejn63 · Answer

If so, see the other points.  It'll probably cost you more to ship the board back than it will to simply buy a complete working system - they're all over Ebay for about $50.00

lloydcometa · Answer

Oh! I just received the board few days, and it's a lost for me if I can't fix it and bought another one. My money waste. Is there any way to fix this issue? Like updating the bios? Because as I see my bios is a04 and there the updated bios is a12

ejn63 · Answer

A12 is already the latest BIOS for a 1558, and you can't apply a BIOS update to a system that won't boot (short of un-soldering the chip, flashing it externally and re-soldering it).

As I wrote earlier, there are a number of these systems that were released in quick succession, and even within the same model system, the boards were different depending on whether you have a dual core CPU or a quad core. You may want to verify with your seller the exact type of CPU they tested -- if it was an i3 or i5, it may have worked, where you have something else like an i7 quad, which may not work with that board.

The microcode error suggests either an incompatible or faulty CPU, so short of returning the board in question, replacing it with a known compatible one (hence the "ask the seller") one step forward.

The question becomes, how much money and time are you putting into a system that's worth about $50?

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