Well, Ausdim sent me the BIOS Decoder where I used the .fl1 file and spit out a bios.wph for me. However, (and I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong) I think you can use winphlash to make a bios.wph too. I downloaded the bios ausdim used just to test and when I used the accompanied .fl1 it came out to the same size as his bios.wph in his WINCRISIS.zip download that he posted in the Lenovo thread. I do think there is a discrepancy in the difference of 50-100 bytes in size. I would just like someone to confirm that you can make a bios.wph out of WinPhlash suitable to be used in a recovery disk. For the record, my comp never crash. I was just waiting on the proper and correct way of making a recovery disk for myself before I decided to mod my BIOS. Although I was confused because the WINCRIS.exe would get into a loop after its done adding files that I dont even see on the USB drive. So I dunno. I just stopped the loop after the second time and added the files. I've yet to test if the disk even works. Has anyone else used Ausdim's recovery method?
Acer TM4730G (with Insyde H2O BIOS) bricked, WOULD ANYONE HELP ME, PLEASE? I bricked my Acer TM4730G (with Insyde H2O BIOS) the day before, and tried the following procedure, but failed: -get the official .FD file of the VERY version when it came to me for my notebook, copy and rename them to the first 1, 2, ..., 8 digits, .FD and .BIN; -put newly named file(s) on a FAT16 USB stick (or a blank CD-RW, MS-DOS bootable, or GRUB installed, or with the .FD image into the boot sector of the CD, or just a BLANK one), plug it (or the CD, or both) in the notebook; -unplug notebook; -remove battery; -unit (removed any usb devices, and even HDD, anything else?) off, press and hold Fn+Esc (mine are probably NOT anything else); -plug in AC power while holding those buttons, at this moment it's power LED , together with the LED on the Power Button, flashed an orange color, only once, just a blink; -turn on notebook (pressed the Power Button while holding Fn+Esc), let go of all buttons, then the LED lights come on, and the fan began to output an abnormal wind speed and noise, for only about 2~5 seconds, at the same time the USB stick flashed once (just once) and the DVD-rom tried to read something, but they seemed to find noting, for I think it had hardly any time to read anything from the USB disk or the CD; -then the machine powered down itself and never wakeup, even if press any button; -the notebook would NOT made ANY beep at all; -pluged off the book, repluged it, pressed the Power button in the normal way, the book would be turned on for 1~3 seconds, trying to read something, and powered off itself, then 1~3 seconds later it powered on itself again, then off, ..., repeatedly, endlessly; Does the filenames missmatches my systems motherboard code? How can I find the right name of it? Would you please HELP me?
bricked VGN-AR250G Hi, I managed to f*ck up and brick a bios flash on the laptop. Turning on will produce a blank screen (no logo, no sounds, nothing). However if there is a cd in the drive it will spin, but nothing happen. Any good ideas how to restore to the original bios? How does one get into the BootBlock recovery mode on a Sony Vaio (the Fn+B, Fn+F do nothing). Thanks so much
ASRock M266A Mobo Tried using the floppy but there does not seem to be an sort of activity on the floppy. Tried pressing ctrl+home but still nothing Anybody knows what else can be done to save the Mobo. When i press the power button, nothing at all appears on the monitor. In fact, i doubt there is any signal going to the monitor at all Appreciate any help i can get. It's an old system but it does have 2GB ram for Win7
recovery of SONY Laptop Hi, i asked before, maybe someone can help me recover a bad bios flash of SONY VGN-AR250G? The CD seems to span, but nothing i tried to do work.
Did you ever find out how to recover the Sony Vaio from the bad BIOS flash? I have a Sony Vaio with an AMI Aptio BIOS and am unable to figure out how to get it into any kind of crisis/recovery mode. Let me know if you find anything out, thanks.
its a dv5230tx, i looked around on forums and someone had said that HP disables recovery in a lot of hp notebooks and dv5000's have it disabled. Although it does look like its attempting to recover, it reads for quite a while then it just stops reading and sits there forever and nothing happens. I tried an old phlash16 and it read for the same sort of time then it made a buzzzz and 2 beeps and then it ends up sitting there forever and doing nothing also so perhaps its related the the version of phlash16, i've tried every version i can get my hands on, some act differently but none have recovered.