Recovering AMIBIOS on 755II0 motherboard I am not sure if this is the right place to look for an answer to my problem, but I have a question regarding BIOS recovery process. I have an old laptop which I had flashed (successfully) earlier on two occasions, but the latest flash update seems to have ruined the party. My system has Amibios (c) 2003 and I have the old BIOS.ROM file. For now I tried using USB pen drive to recover my bios as I had flashed (updated) my BIOS using pen drives earlier. Method I am using is. 1. USB drive formatted in FAT format. 2. Copying BIOS.ROM to USB drive. 3. Renaming BIOS.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM (though I have tried without changing the bios name). 4. Inserting the USB in the USB Slot. 5. With ctrl+home pressed I am powering up my system. After USB being accessed (USB drives light starts glowing) I get 2 short beeps then after a very brief interval I get 5 short beeps. I checked American Megatrends site and as per their beep code list for Boot Block Beep Codes 2 short beeps means ‘AMIBOOT.ROM’ file not found in root directory of diskette in A: (which I rechecked and is there on the USB drive) 5 short beeps means File read error (which is understandable as it did not find AMIBOOT.ROM on USB drive) My deductions are that may be my system is not able to recognize USB Drive. I have even tried using the CD-ROM with just the AMIBOOT.ROM file on it without any success (though I don't get any beeps while using CD-ROM even after 10 minutes) AMI site suggests use of on-board floppy controller and my system doesn't have any. I was thinking of buying external USB floppy drive but at the same time am little bit skeptic as to will it work since it is still going to be accessed through USB port. My question is am I doing something wrong? Has someone tried using external floppy drive? Does it works? Is there any method to make USB Drive appear as floppy drive to the bios? Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. P.S Edit: Tried with new external floppy drives (they really are extinct) on second attempt my system seemed to be reading from the floppy drive, I was really excited, but alas my excitement was short lived. Very soon there was a death like silence, I waited for it to reboot but nothing no response all the lights had died off. The sound of fan had stopped all together. So I tried to restart it using power switch, but nothing. Laptop has been dead ever since, now thinking of taking it for the BIOS re-flashing. From looks of it, it seems my BIOS chip can be removed and is not soldered on to the motherboard. But adding to my woes, while removing the CMOS battery (as was suggested somewhere in this forum, in an attempt to wake up the dead) I have damaged the ribbon cable for the track-pad. My question is would it, in any way, will effect the booting up process after re-flashing process. Thanks in advance
I have a v6500 with a dead bios, and cannot get the FN-B, win-B combo to work. have tried a usb floppy and usb key, no luck. Striker--- could you send me a copy of that ROM file, I am going to build the SPIPGM programmer (unless i can borrow yours) thanks -j
Hello Need your help badly, i bricked my acer extensa 4220 laptop, it is now totally blank but does have power light on it, tried some of your tips but still no go.. pls help!
it's a phoenix bios u had there, see phoenix bios recovery section there, had some troubles to extract the bios files, it's self executable.
First option:- You can try opening the executable file with HEX editor. Rename it to other extensions if you don't want accidentally execute the file. Search for "ANDERSON" (text strings). It will look like this at text strings section:- This "SH0100011000001000011011101011000000" can be different but start copying the HEX values after this "SH0100011000001000011011101011000000", until the end of the file. Paste to a new binary file & save it with .WPH extension. I have test this with two different BIOS image (Aspire 9420 & 9520). The extracted BIOS image does identical with original BIOS image. Second option:- Go to support dot acer-euro dot com & browse the FTP site for BIOS image. Third option:- Launch the executable file in VMware. The BIOS image will be extracted to temporary folder.
I have a problem with a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Rev 1.0 board. After a bios downgrade the board is dead, black screen, beep code occurs only when no RAM is inserted. Then it beeps 3x long. Have the version with the disk already tried, but it does not address the floppy drive Any idea what i can do ?
Thx, 1 & 2 option is very helpful, for the 3rd option its always simple choice but useful, thx a lot!
Sorry im just a little bit new here, my laptop is acer 4220 extensa, i try to follow the instructions, on the very fist page but no luck. if may i ask, the 3rd options here, once it saves on a temporary folder, should i copy it to a usb stick and try it again? (sorry for ignorance im not so techy..)
okay thank you again.. i have to buy usb floppy, hope it will works on usb floppy.. i really appreciate your assistance..
Edit: Problem solved, I just buyed another mother board --' I buyed another one cause i echanged bios chip from one to another, but it was solder, so....
Fujitsu t5010 a1f bios recoveruy. I have been trying to recover this for a long time with no success. My first question is how do i extract bios.wph file? I downloaded from fujitsu website T5010_A1F_BIOS_V1.11_FPC46-1562-06.exe for T5010 a1f model. I dont know of any way to extract, i tried winzip, winrar and 7 zip. If anyone can tell me how to do it i will appreciate it. for the symptom, whenever i turn on laptop it keeps beeping, 1 long beep followed by 2 short. when i formated usb drive with hp tool and placed the 3 files from phoenix recovery tool with wph file from that tool as well, starting while holding down fn+f, usb drive blinks 6 times, stops, blinks 6 more times and den does nothing, i suppose its because i dont have right wph file??? anyways, please help me getin somewhere, i have ben hiting walls trying everything and getting nowhere. ALSO, for creating bootable floppy, I am using usb floppy, it shows up as A drive, but in HP format utility in dropdown menu it doesnt show floppy drive anywhere, it would show all sd cards, usb drives, but not A drive, did anyone run into this? any solution please? If it wasnt just a misunderstanding, i am not suppose to use hp utility for FLOPPY disk, just run phoenix crisis recovery on it right? Either case, the biosdata.rom file for T5010 a1f ver.1.11 is 2.04 MB that was posted by imatrix with modified 2.1slic keys, is there any other .WPH file i can use that would fit FLOPPY drive? when i hooked up floppy drive it kept spinning giving me hope that as long as i get correct .wph file it will recover.