Toshiba BIOS Mod with File extension ****.COM

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  1. nxhefner

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  3. killer23d

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    I know the Qosmio G30 has Toshiba BIOS, not too sure about G40.
     
  4. spadge007

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    #24 spadge007, Sep 2, 2009
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    I have a Toshiba Tecra M10 with BIOS version 1.90 installed Model PTMB3E.

    The BIOS has SLIC 2.0 tables (Used SLIC Dump to confirm this) but am I correct in thinking I need 2.1 to "hacktivate" Windows 7 Ultimate? :)

    If you need any dumps just let me know.

    The BIOS installer uses a .com file also (BIO0066T.COM)

    Cheers

    UPDATE

    Toshiba just released BIOS v3.0 with SLIC 2.1 for the Tecra M10 model.
     
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  8. BlackNovaYZFR1

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    #28 BlackNovaYZFR1, Oct 27, 2009
    Any news on extracting the BIOS data from the COM file?
     
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  11. kocoman

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    #31 kocoman, Nov 18, 2009
    Can anyone make screenshots of what happen when you run the COM file?

    I tried loading them into IDA disassembler to look at it.
     
  12. a666

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    #32 a666, Nov 18, 2009
    I am not sure COMs are executables, probably they are just binary/custom rom format, bios upgrade performed by this command:

    chgbiosa.exe bio00***.com

    may be after loading rom will be "unpacked" or "converted" to some memory section of chgbiosa.exe (I didn't know how it works)
     
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    #33 Galaxer, Dec 4, 2009

    Attached Files:

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    #34 cabir38, Dec 9, 2009
    thank you.
     
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    any progress?
     
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  19. RJARRRPCGP

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    #39 RJARRRPCGP, Feb 25, 2010
    LOL. *.com is probably a DOS program and you run it from DOS to extract the BIOS.
     
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