BIOS update bricked my m6-1045dx

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I use may laptop for astrophotography, and I wanted to upgrade the memory from 8gb to 16gb. I  purchased the exact same memory except for the size. It would slow the system down to a crawl when installed. I checked the bios on the system and it had never been updated form F.03 and the latest was F.27 Rev A

(I had updated to Win7 Ultima and a 256gb SSD drive. ) The system was running much better than it was.

 HP's site recomends updating the bios to F.27 Rev A

I downloaded the Bios and ran it. It went thru the loading process and said it completed successfully. It then rebooted.

I waited about ten minutes with nothing but a black screen. I powered down and restarted, still a black screen.

I tried the hard power reset, no luck. I tried the hold windows key and B, no luck. I tried windows key and V, no luck.

I tried build USB drive , no luck.

I need this lap top so I bought a used motherboad on Ebay and will install it if there is no other solution.

Also I really would like to upgrade the memory, but do not want to BRICK another motherboard. Is there a problem with ver F.27 BIOS, has any one upgraded to a later verison of the bios with success? Ver F.25 says it ( Optimized the memory settings to improve the reliability of the memory system) will it fix the slow 16GB problem???????

ANY HELP WITH THIS WOULD BE NICE.

thanks

chuck

[Txstick]

Bueller!!!  Bueller!!!

Looks like HP knows there is a problem with thier bios and they don't want to talk about it.

I have seen many having the same problem on the web, but no solutions.