Hp 6510B Bios Update Was Unsuccessful

Hi, and thanks God that i found this forum Im in trouble with a Compaq 6510b and I dont know what to do in short: i got this machine, old but somehow working, but showing a warningerror after the post that the bios update was unsuccessful and the procedure should have been redone.

However, this procedure could not complete (IIRC because the checksum of the current bios was not correct), and the bios was not updated.

Then, stupidly, i wanted to try with the latest version, F.20, and the windows based flasher.

After this procedure, the warning was still there, but the machine was not completing the boot anymore, but rather bootlooping.

At this point i was unsure what to do, but in the end i decided to try to replace the bios chip, that i thought fked up (only today i learnt that there is a procedure to salvage such a situation with a usb diskette drive) So i ordered a replacement on ebay, from a seller who claimed to put the latest version on the chip.

Nevertheless the machine is now booting fine, and i could also enter the bios correctly.

Instead of it i get some weird few clicking noises when some audio should happen.

I also tried to boot a live linux (ubuntu), with the same problem, and the addition that i get a lot of warningserrors with dmesg, like: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at driversgpudrmi915inteldisplay.c:.

Now i am very unsure what the problem could be.

At first i thought i incorrectly replugged the internal speaker connector, but that was not the case.

I just tried to update the bios with the modded F.16 version that i found here in the forum, using HPQFlash.exe.

I wonder if theres some way to make it speak from bios, to rule out possible driver problems.

I see well, i guess thanks for the diagnosis, at least now i can sleep better.

May i also ask, as a last question, what procedure would be adviceable to follow when doing such interventions maybe shielding the rest of the components from the heat but how Also, from just guessing, would you think that its a component on the audiopcmcia board (which would be fixed by replacing it), or on the main board in the nearby of the bios chip.

Same problem. I take that the last possibility is a faulty audio board.

I bought a system board replacement, and replugged the old audio board.

I would exclude bad wires or connector, because i get the same problem with headphones connected to the jack.