Inspiron 1100 Hiccup Greetings and thanks to everyone who divined how to do this. I have used the tool on a number of ancient Dell desktop machines without issue. Very easy, in fact. But I am having trouble using it on a Dell Inspiron 1100 BIOS A32. Using the same SLIC and Cert as I've used on the desktop machines, and giving it the RW Everything report, the tool spits out a new BIOS in the Dell BIOS Flash format. But clicking on that new BIOS gives me a permissions error. I don't think that that's really what's happening, though. I've checked the permissions, taken ownership, and even checked to see if another program is preventing the BIOS installer from running. Still no joy. I've also tried different combinations of SLICs and Certs with either the same outcome or worse (the tool can't recombine the files.) One other clue: The error dialog that pops up says that the BIOS is for the 5100. The original is absolutely for the 1100. It's a fresh download and it installs without issue on the laptop, even over the same version of the BIOS. So it seems that it's a problem with the installer that the tool spits out? Here's the entire message: Inspiron 5100 BIOS Flash A32 Program Access Denied Please make sure you are logged in as an Administrator. Of course, I AM logged in as an Administrator and I've tried running the BIOS installer by right clicking and running as Administrator along with the steps described above. Other info: I'm running it with all default settings. Again, thanks to everyone who has made this possible. It has saved a few machines from the trash heap.
Thanks, Andy. That got it. I booted to DOS and executed the new installer that the tool created. No issues. It installed and everything checks out. Thanks again.
Thanks for this great tool! It seems like my Laptop (Acer 5820TG), which comes with an Insyde Bios, has it's GPU bios in a module in the motherboard's bios. I was able to locate the right module which contained the GPU bios inside the "Dump" folder this tool creates, and some hexediting later, I modded my GPU clocks from 750/800 to 900/1100 (these clocks are stable, tested with AMD GPU clock tool.). Now I was wondering how I can recreate the bios with the modded module from the "Dump" folder. I do not want to insert SLIC into the bios. Thanks for all the help!
Use 1.55 Tick No SLIC and Allow users to modify other modules. Replace module when told. Enoy! Andy EDIT: If you have redownloaded prior to reading this - download again. It doesn't ask for RW report for no slic mod.
In addition to that I have used nibitor (NVIDIA BIOS Editor) for nvidia GPUs.....it was requested by a user a year ago..it allows to alter GPU related values, memory timings for GPU as well. Since that ROM is a part (module) of notebook bioses you may use NVIDIA BIOS Editor to edit....the 8 bit sum should sum to zero here as well....
fixed, just had to change my system locale setting to english however ,new exe file wont run in windows ,had to got into pure dos to update now my windows 7 is fully activated, thanks for the good work