Thank you BIG TIME! This saved my T400s. Big thanks also to Ausdim and Yen! I'd like to add some information that could be useful to others as it didn't work for me the first times I tried. I'm running Windows 7 64bit. Wincrisis doesn't start on 64bit OS or Windows 7 or both. In the readme it states that you should enable compatibility mode if Wincrisis doesn't work. I did that and the tool *seemed* to do its job. However the Stick didn't work. Maybe the tool couldn't write the sectors properly I don't know. I was totally lost and thought that it just won't work woth my machine. Then I installed WIndows XP 32bit, did the same procedure again and voila it worked the first time! Thank you all very, very much! Recovering Thinkpad Bios procedures are really hard to find on the net. Max
I flashed an Asus M3a with a modified bios and bricked my board. After trying several of the methods in this forum, i found on the Asus website that my board has Asus crash free bios. I started the computer with the Asus support disk that came with my board, and after a few minutes it restarted with the original version. I thought I would post this in case other newbs like myself has a similar problem.
Hi Can anyone elp me with my laptop is a G71GX Asus gaming laptop. It was working perfectly fine, I was playing Transformers War for Cybertron for about 3hrs then shutdown my laptop. I turned it back on a day later on nothing. the light comes the fan is spinning but nothing shows on the screen. i get no error beeps, no sound, no nothing just a black screen. i tried using the instructions posted on the first page here but no luck so far. other specs about my a laptop using windows 7 64bit 6GB Ram geforce 260m 1GB video card not sure if this would be an issue or not but my home key shares the 7 numeric key on my keyboard
BIOS recovery only for people who flashed their BIOS but failed. Failed because the BIOS image is buggy or because faulty on hardware (e.g. embedded controller, bios chip, etc) which prevent the BIOS flash process complete successfully. In your case, it probably the GPU is fried. So, you need to send it for repair. Using BIOS recovery to repair your computer can only make things worst.
Hi there from Greece... i have one HP mini 110-1160EV with bricked bios... so i ve need to upgrade it with a new one... the problem is... i can;t find any .rom file in HP site - also they don;t provide me any .rom file when chat with them... i know the procedure with Ctrl-Home and SD-Card under 2gb (Fat32)... but if anyone can send me the .ROM file will be very helpfully... (Also try it to extract with many programs from AFU Windows exe file but wasn't any known format)..... Thanks in advance
i already tried replacing the video card, thought that was the problem as well. As the warranty is already up I think re flashing my bios is my only option.
Reflashing BIOS won't fix hardware problem. Why don't you send for repair. Yes you will need to pay for it but at least it wouldn't be an expensive paperweight. I see a lot of Asus G71 retired lately. I hope it is not because bad build quality & it is not "a lot" as it would seems.
If you have an Acer Travelmate 240 (or I guess 250), using Petar's Phoenix BIOS recovery method 2 will solve your dead laptop problem, though you will need a USB Floppy drive. Write the provided image to the floppy and then get the latest DOS BIOS from the Acer site (bios113.zip) and rename the 'YU-V113.ABL' file as 'BIOS.WPH'. Overwrite the one on the disk and follow the rest of the instructions using Fn+B to start the process.... The very loud beeps the laptop makes should then get a bit quieter once it starts loading the bios... ^_^
Hi everyone, I have a Acer aspire 5600 (5601 AWLMi). Someone gave it to me not long ago, Everything was going ok, but it started to reboot. So I thought about flash the Bios, the problem was that while it was flashing the Laptop rebooted. I've tried all the possible methods and I still get no results. First I tried with a pen. No led turns on the pen! I'm using Fn+Esc. I've tried fn+B and Win+B, but it doesn't work. Then I tried to create a partition on the HDD and place the AMI file (the AMI file was suposed to be the BIOS.WPH renamed right?) I've tried to use a memory card on the memory card slot. Nothing seem to work. I've tried the USB Floppy, but I think its broken (The usb floppy). The laptop does not work without the battery, not even with the AC. Can someone tell me what is the procedure that I should do? Sory about my Inglish...
Bios update fail Hi everyone My computer crashed when i was updating bios through windows. When i tried to reboot the screen was all black. The leds and the fan was working but nothing happen. My computer is a Toshiba L500 with a Phoenix Bios. I tried to use crisis recovery and the methods shown in this forum with a flash drive but it wont work. The only thing i can notice is that when i use the Fn+B and pull the power cord all the leds blink for 1 second and some of them are red. Also my flash drive led blinks one time. I cannot use a floppy drive because my bios .rom file size is 2 Mb Also im not sure if i can use any plash16 file in crisis recovery so i dont know if i am doing it well. I really need to solve this. Please help. Sorry for my poor english
Have you tried create the CRISIS disk using floppy drive with "Compress the bin file" option selected?
My CRISIS version doesn't have that option Options available: - Create minidos crisis disk - Create Fulldos crisis disk - Format the drive diskette How do you do it?
When I try to do it i received the message: Failed to copy BIOS.WPH file. -Make sure diskette format completed. -Check if file exists. I've done everything right but it wont work.
I guess it failed to compress the ROM file from 2MB to less than 1.44MB. I'm afraid you have to try again with USB flash drive. Use the package I gave earlier, replace the BIOS.WPH file with your notebook BIOS file & create CRISIS disk with USB flash drive. Remember, you need to rename your BIOS file to BIOS.WPH. Sorry to mention something maybe you already know but sometime people forgot to rename it.
Maybe you are right. But now i have a file with 1.36 mb and it is supose to fit. Perhaps it is my diskette. The sounds that it make looks like its not working properly. I really dont know and I'm giving up. I tried everything with the usb flash drive so i'm quite sure it wont work. Grateful for your help.
I realize the problem is the size. 1,36 is not enough to fit on the floppy with phlash16 and minidos. Is there any way to compress it even more?
Hello, may anyone help with vostro 3700. I have tried the procedures to make bootable USB flash drive and boot from it, but seems laptop do not react to that USB. What is more cd-rom is working, maybe bios for vostro 3x series should be restore from CD-recovery.