Sorry, when I update the offical BIOS, My Motherboard is broken. And I try to recovery. No help any more. Thank your reply.
These are good questions. I've modified both bioses. The modification was here easy, because I only had to exchange the marker data, nothing more. The bios is not rebuilt, means no change of offsets, no modification of any code. Both bioses are different ones anyway. I don't know what's about 30B7F42.WPH. I had a look at the PHLASH.INI. Both uses the BIOS.WPH to update. What way have you used flashing the original? To make really sure it is the BIOS.WPH that will be updated you may dump your current bios: Install rw everything (found at announcement) Dump the memory: press memory dump (third icon from the left side) press address button and enter: FFF00000, press OK. press save as binary, second icon of memdump window. enter length 100000, save and upload your dump of your current bios. I would use SWinFlash....but let's have a look at your dump first.... BTW: Using DOS never use /BBL command. To update the bootblock is never necessary if you update tho the same original version before. The BBL contains code to allow to recover the bios and should be left untouched. phlash16 bios.wph /x /s /mode=3 /c One more thing about Phoenix and bad flashes: Flashing through DOS is usually the better alternative, yes. BUT must of the bad flashes occurs when the bios was not rebuilt properly. PBE tool is not always reliable. Your mod was not rebuilt and should be as save as the original to flash.
Yen: Forgive me but I do not understand what you are saying here. Let me try to put it in a way in which I understand what you are saying and then you tell me if I am correct or not understanding. 1. You say that you modified BOTH bioses. Which 2 bioses did you modify? I only see 2 bioses and one of them is 30B7F42.WPH and the other is BIOS.WPH. So, did you modify both of these 2 bioses? Which of the 2 bioses should I use. 2. With regard to the first question above, you say that you do not know about 30B7F42.WPH. So, did you modify this bioses? Should I keep this bios and rename it to BIOS.WPH and use it in Phlash16 or SwinFlash? Or should I dump 30B7F42.WPH and use only BIOS.WPH? 3. You say the following: Install rw everything (found at announcement) Dump the memory: press memory dump (third icon from the left side) press address button and enter: FFF00000, press OK. press save as binary, second icon of memdump window. enter length 100000, save and upload your dump of your current bios. With regard to number 3 above, I do not understand what you mean to dump the memory.....With what utility do I dump the memory. The following scenario below is what I understand of how to flash my cousin's bios and you tell me if I am wrong or not: A. I was going to rename 30B7F42.WPH to BIOS.WPH and flash this file using phlash16. B. I was going to create a USB Flash Drive and install the Windows 98 DOS boot files on it. Then I was going to add phlash16 and the renamed 30B7F42.WPH file (Renamed to BIOS.WPH) to my USB Flash Drive. C. Once I have my USB Flash Drive prepared, I was going to set the boot sequence to USB Flash Drive and reboot the computer. D. When I got to the DOS Command, I was going to type the following of which I now understand is wrong: phlash16 bios.wph /x /s /bbl /mode=3 /c. E. So, to correct the DOS commands I am NOW going to flash the drive with the following DOS Commands: phlash16 bios.wph /x /s /mode=3 /c. F. So, if I use phlash16, where does SWinFlash come into the picture here because you said that I should use SWinFlash but then you go on to tell me to flash the bios with phlash16. So, I am confused at this point. Please help me understand the steps above so that I do not make a mistake and screw up my cousin's computer by turning it into a brick if the flash goes wrong.
Hi Yen & 911medic. Do you figure out which kind of bios this? If it is safe I can give it a try, because I don't have any idea how to recover in case of bad flash, as bios type is not known. Any how this bois is for HP COMPAQ 6510b business notebook, it came with VISTA business (i.e. already has SLIC2.0). If you can insert HP SLIC2.1 it will be very fine, and also tell me if it is safe to flash or not? Regards
Dell 1525 2.0 to 2.1 SLIC Planning on an upgrade to Win7 so a 2.1 slic is called for. Currently my Dell 1525 bios has a 2.0 swapped SLIC (public marker is first). My thinking is : extract the hdr file using : 1525_A16.exe -writehdrfile Overwrite the SLIC in the image with the 2.1 SLIC found on the forum Calculate the checksum in the header and insert in the file gzip to bios.gz write bios using : 1525_A16.exe -readgzfile A feq questions come to mind :- Can I overwrite a swapped SLIC (public marker is first) with a standard SLIC and will it work? Do the above steps look about right