Hi10 Air bricked after changing BIOS settings – how to reset?

[Tehfrag]

I did the same thing changing ram frequently.

Plug in a USB keyboard, hold power for 13 seconds if not more. Make sure its charged. Then power it one pressing esc on the keyboard, it should reset the bios to defaults. This unbricked mine.

Only setting you should mess with is vram size, 256mb max.

[Yuu]

Doesn’t seem to work… tried it with the attachable keyboard and a USB one. I suppose holding it for 13 seconds is to shut it down in case it is turned on? Holding ESC while booting it does nothing sadly…

 

Also, do you know if this thing comes apart easily? I bought a CH341A BIOS reprogrammer thingy, so maybe I can reflash the BIOS that way.

[Tehfrag]

I was holding escape while trying to power it on, kinda surprised it worked. Only settings I messed with were Ram frequency and vram size. It reset both settings when it did finally come back to life again.

[Andy]

Did the method above work? I’m in the same situation.

[Daniel]

Man I’m in the same situation, got it for my son, saw the RAM was running just at 1066, put it to Auto and increased VRAM, as I usually do on all intel devices, and shit its bricked, and wont boot, wrote to CHUWI will see if they respond

[Yuu]

I had to send mine back to CHUWI. They charged $45 and wiped everything from the tablet.

Your best bet would be to get a CH341A reprogrammer (cheap on ebay), download the BIOS from CHUWI’s website, open up the tablet and reflash it.

[Daniel]

Flashing the BIOS is not what I really want to do, if I screw up it totally kills the warranty, ok if there even is any… I wrote to Chuwi and will wait for the response, ordering the reprogrammer is my  last resort 🙂

 

[Tehfrag]

Did you try the BIOS reset procedure with a keyboard in my 2nd post?

[Yuu]

Yes, I did. I tried pretty much everything I could find on the internet.

[Daniel]

Yes, tried all of the web advises, power button hold, Ecs, volume button etc. nothing works, usually intel BIOS if screwed up,  it freezes during boot, or has artifacts, but becoming totally bricked is really strange. I might need to look for someone who has experience with flashing BIOS, might be cheaper to sending it back, but to be honest I’m very disappointed with Chuwi, I wanted to buy one additional laptop from them, but I will not touch Chuwi again.

[Steve]

I have a CHUWI HI10 x64 Windows version and I changed the RAM clock speeds and now my tablet wont turn on.

The LED flashes when I charge it, but when I turn it on, it does not enter BIOS with or without keyboard connected.

Also keyboard lights do not turn as they used before this happened.

Can someone post concrete steps to revive this tablet CHUWI Hi10 x64 Windows (32GB/8GB)? 🙁

Your help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

[Tehfrag]

Steve wrote:

I have a CHUWI HI10 x64 Windows version and I changed the RAM clock speeds and now my tablet wont turn on. The LED flashes when I charge it, but when I turn it on, it does not enter BIOS with or without keyboard connected. Also keyboard lights do not turn as they used before this happened. Can someone post concrete steps to revive this tablet CHUWI Hi10 x64 Windows (32GB/8GB)? ? Your help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

Check my 2nd post here in this thread, worked for me: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/hi10-air-bricked-after-changing-bios-settings-how-to-reset/#post-181382

[Fábio Roberto Pereira]

Daniel wrote:

Flashing the BIOS is not what I really want to do, if I screw up it totally kills the warranty, ok if there even is any… I wrote to Chuwi and will wait for the response, ordering the reprogrammer is my last resort

Does Chuwi dispose BIOS to downlod on their site?

I just found the BIOS links on the Chuwi forum, but from other models.

I have the Hi 10 Go with N5100 processor.

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