Thanks for the help tito.. but currently the laptop is no longer in my possession now... so I can't test it again.
Please see above: It is model 6234. I edited my answer a minute too late so that you found the one without the model-number. Sorry Paul
Why don't you use a bootable pendrive instead of a CD? Many thanks for your help so far. The simple answer is that I didn't have a pen drive available but I did create a bootable CD by extracting the boot floppy image from the official ISO and specifying that as the boot option to genisoimage so it boots into DOS 7. The only problem is the programs now complain "This program cannot be run in DOS mode". That makes sense if they're windows executables. I was wondering if I could simply repackage the new ROM image onto the official ISO and try that? Will let you know how that goes!
Ok, I took the official ISO image, removed the existing data files and put the ones from the MOD folder there instead. Had to disable the user interface program and now I have it rebooting and am able to invoke "flash2 /u" and so on from the command line. It reports "Checking for files and environment ..." "Check failed. Return code = 4" "!!! BIOS image file cannot be found !!!" The other programs aren't much more use ... they report "The CD is damaged" (presumably because I purged the expected files and replaced them with the modified BIOS files). I've now hit a dead end because I have no idea how to use the modified files with these programs nor can I get the modified BIOS up without using a boot CD.
I have flash the original Bios. The emtpy SLIC table come back. Read your private messages for the Link. Thanks