I have to add smth to that. I had to create phlash.ini in the same folder, where winphlash.exe is located. The content: Code: [UI] Advanced=1 UpdateMode=3 hideall=0 [Main] FormatVersion=2 UpdateFlags=910920 UserFlags=910120 UserMask=d121a4 PSIFlags=20 UserMode=ffffffff RetryCount=3 UpdateMode=3 ImageFile=R0112N0.WPH BackupFile=BIOS.BAK you have to replace ImageFile value with your one. This will force the command above to update BIOS, even a same version is already in BIOS. The background: looks like /spi command line option tells to winphlash, that it has to do an update in a different SONY way. Unfortunately, you cannot specified this option in Winphlash GUI: the custom command block is grayed out. The same time, i did not found the other ways to tell winphlash.exe to force a bios update, than as in Winphlash GUI in Advanced Settings (there is a checkbox 'Do not update the same version' or smth like that). So what i did: I have enabled the advanced settings, started Winphlash.exe without any options, checked and unchecked and selected all necessary options, click ok, click 'flash bios' to start a bios update - it's failed immediately because of 'broken image' -149. But it's okay - i wanted from Winphlash.exe to update phlash.ini! After that, i started again Winphlash.exe with "/spi /bbl /sd" options. The rest options was taken by Winphlash.exe from phlash.ini, including the setting, telling to update bios even the same version is there. Now the Toshiba SLIC is inside