Satellite L555D-S700​5 BIOS crisis recovery

Hello,
My Satellite L555D-S7005 refuses to POST with no screen, USB or hard drive activity after a bad BIOS flash.  The only thing working is the CDROM drive.  I can use the Fn+B combination to enter the Phoneix BIOS recovery mode but after having tried countless times trying a USB floppy drive, USB flash drives, the card reader (which is also internally wired through USB), it is apparent the whole USB subsystem is failing and only the CDROM drive can be used for crisis recovery.  Is there any information about how to recovery a Satellite L555D-S7005 using only a recovery CD as in what contents would be required.  I have already tried burning discs containing the ISO with the BIOS update, even modified to pass more aggressive options to the Phoenix flash tool, as well as making bootable CDs with the floppy image of the crisis disc.  The CDROM will always read for a while and then stop sometimes stopping with the CDROM light remaining on, other times it turns off.  But nonetheless, the BIOS is never recovered.  Does anyone have any Maintenance Manual information or links for this laptop?  I would like to recover it by hand if possible without taking it in for service unless there is absolutely no way or information about doing a Phoenix crisis recover using a CDROM drive for this model.  I have seen many success stories regarding floppy drives, USB flash drives and card readers but never with CDROM though it is alluded to on many sites.
Regards.

It is not easy to offer some precise diagnostic but I think there is serious hardware problem and you will not be able to fix it with this standard procedure as BIOS repair or memory module/HDD exchange.
Long time ago I had similar problem on my Satellite M and in my case CPU was defective. After CPU exchange I was able to start notebook again. So maybe is the same problem on your notebook. Obtain used but well working CPU on eBay, exchange it and try to start your notebook.
I dont know if you can do this alone but CPU exchange is very sensitive work and should be done by someone who knows how to do this.

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