Hp Pavilion Tx1000 Bad Bios Flash

Hi everyone, I recently bought and hp pavilion tx1000 series (tx1030la) it has the common overheating problem in wich the GPU chip desolders, I fixed it with the help of some youtube videos (the penny fix) and everything was working perfectly until I decided to update the BIOS, I downloaded the latest bios for the machine from the official hp webpage, ran it and everything was going ok, then suddenly the fan started spinning like crazy and the computer shutted itself down, I knew that bios update had possibly failed and waiting for the worse I turned the computer on, It did nothing other than beeping in a pattern of 1 long beep then two short beeps, after trying the CRISIS method for recovering the bios without luck I read somewhere that the beep pattern exposed by my machine has something to do with a gpu failure, I tried the Fix I did the first time to solve it with no luck, and now I don't know what else to do as there is very few information regarding to the tx1000 Bios failure, there are much people fixing a bad flashed BIOS in DvXXXX models but none on txXXXX models, right now I'm desperate and I need the computer so bad, I tried The CRISIS fix with an usb stick as I don't have an USB floppy and the process reaches a point at where the computer starts to making a buzz sound and then a beep, buzz sound beep, and it keeps on doing it but never really finishes the flashing procedure, it seems to be reading the usb drive on the beginning but nothing happes, if i hold the windows key + b or Fn key + B makes no difference, the computer does the same if the Usb stick is connected and has the files for CRISIS recovery, but if the usb is not plugged the computer keeps on its one long two short beeps, please some help me i really need the computer, is there any chance to recover it by CRISIS!?, I can also buy a damaged tx1000 motherboard and take out the bios chip and replace it in my machine, you think that this will work!?

I think the gpu has failed again, if the bios was dead you would get no beeps, it is the bios that generates the hardware failure beeps.
Home brew reflows generally do not last too long or can cause more damage.
The reason the gpu comes loose on most of that vintage was due to 2 problems
1. Overheating
2. Poor quality solder used when the gpu and other motherboard components were flowed at the factory.
Reflowing it does not always work because of the quality of the ball solder they used, also you only get one reflow attempt, doing more than one weakens the original solder even more. Most likely the seller reflowed it shortly before selling it to you.
Proper repair is what is called a reball (solder replacement) of the gpu, not may repair facilities have the equipment to performed this, and is usually expensive procedure depending on the motherboard design.

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