No physical memory is available at the location required for the Windows Boot Manager. The system can not continue.

The RAM stick was worth a try. I guess the "No physical memory..." might be an area on the BIOS chip itself. Maybe something died on that. It's a pity all you've done hasn't revived it. There are differences in the sizes of your BIOS downloads, but I'm unsure it matters. Here they are...

A18 - A22: 8.66 MB

A17: 8.67

A16: 8.61

A14 - A15: 8.60

A13: 8.59

A12: 8.56

A11: 8.53

I wish I had something better to contribute. I hope your "new" E6530 will solve it. I double hope there won't be activation trouble. Good luck & keep us informed.

Today I bought an 8 GB memory stick and tried it. Didn't help at all. Tonight I reinstalled Win 10 over the "bad" one. Just as I thought. I basically have nothing. No programs. No settings. Just nothing. Complete start from scratch which will take days, months ... Even worse. I put BIOS A22 back and then the brand new (useless at this point) Win 10 I put on won't boot. You guessed it: "No physical memory..." Dropped back to BIOS A11 and I can boot the worthless Win 10 for now (and eCS). What I am hoping for is that I bought a used E6530 laptop exactly the same as mine and when I get it I will try my "bad" Win 10 from 2 months back and just maybe it will work and then I can abandon spending time trying to recreate Win 10 to make it just as it was before the computer died.

Jordan

(1) That's amazing. Good going to get eCS to boot. It's a pity you'd have to give up the "security advisories" that started coming with A20. Maybe A19 is the last that will work for you. I guess I might look carefully through every BIOS screen of A07 & jot down each setting. Make sure each later version you try has them set the same way. What a drudgery, but good going on your part to persist. I know A22 was already installed at the start of this thread. Were both OS booting for a period of time while it was installed? It's a puzzle that it should suddenly stop.

(2) The clone of Win 7 won't activate because an OEM license cannot be transferred to a new computer (or motherboard). And that can't be solved by doing an upgrade-install. A clean install would work, because the E6530 has its own digital license. But first try to solve the "STOP: 0xc0000001" error, if you don't want to lose apps & files. I see you've got a starting point.

Update:

I was thinking of borrowing or buying memory to test the laptop and thinking of aquiring the exact same laptop on eBay but I then an idea popped into my head. I decided to really rev down the BIOS to the beginning so I installed A07 (vs. A22 which is on now.) Amazing! Whereas many things on the Internet say to upgrade the BIOS to solve problems, this was opposite. The machine started booting legacy options (like Internal HD, CD/DVD drive) and NO MORE DREADED "No Physical Memory..." message. I can now boot eCS just as it was before the problems started. Win 10 is a different story. I still could not boot Win 10 (STOP: 0xc0000001), so I put a clone copy of Win 7 in it's place which crashed upon boot, but I used my Win 7 recovery disc and it actually was able to fix it and then it booted fine. The drivers mostly updated and now it works, but of course it isn't authentic since it came from the D630. But, no worries. I don't really want Win 7. I want Win 10, so put Win 10 ISO CD/DVD in and ran setup inside Win 7. Got to the license screen and put in what I thought was my previous key which I had a picture of on my phone, but unfortunately, it would not take. Maybe because it's an OEM version? Not sure because thought this is exactly how I did it 2 years ago but can't recall for sure. Anyway, there is documentation online that says that EasyRE will fix the 0xc00000001 problem. I doubt it, but may try it. Other than that, I will have to do a clean install of Win 10 and lose everything. Bummer. Well, at least eCS works. Oh, and BTW, I put BIOS version A22 back and sure enough "No physical Memory" message returned, so A22 definitely broken for some weird reason. Went back to A07 for now. Once I get Win 10 back (hopefully), then I will experiment and see how far beyond A07 I can go without getting the "No physical memory..." message again.

Jordan

OK. More power to you if you can be happy running those older OS. (I would be fearful of viruses & of finding parts when they go bad. Also, I think many internet sites won't run with older browsers.) And it does sound like you have indeed put together a (tongue in cheek) Frankenstein monster that will live again in a good computer. I guess you were right from the start that the E6530 BIOS lost its ability to boot in Legacy mode. You did everything in the world to recover it, but it would not resurrect. Good luck & keep us informed.