Manual BIOS editing, modern tools of the trade?

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by jamesm80, Apr 11, 2014.

  1. jamesm80

    jamesm80 MDL Novice

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    Hi,
    A few years back I used to play around with BIOS's using CBROM, Phoenix BIOS Editor etc. but more recently I mostly used Andy's Tools for injecting SLIC tables...

    Now I'd like to have a go at manually editing BIOS's again but it seems things have changed a bit and the tools that used to be used are not used anymore? I've got a DELL 745 OptiPlex BIOS for example, and this won't open in Phoenix BIOS Editor (no BCP's found?). Andy's Tools seems to uncompress all the module rom's but then I get a HDR Checksum Incorrect...

    I wonder if anyone might be kind enough to fill me in roughly with regards to what tools are the best now to edit BIOS's manually, and rebuild/put them back together afterwards?

    ..and yes I have searched the forum as best as I can, but it seems that most of the info is old for manual bios editing (2007).

    Any guidance appreciated, just a point in the right direction would be great.

    Thanks,
    James.
     
  2. Yen

    Yen Admin
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