I need this as well, currently I am currently trying to get at the NVS 150M Option ROM which is found only on Toshiba Laptops. Thanks
Guys, any luck on getting SLIC 2.1 BIOS MOD/Hack for any variant of Toshiba? I got 2nd lappy, Protege M500. SLIC v2.0, capable running VISTA.
Sorry for bumping this thread, but I have an old Toshiba Qosmio F20 laptop I want to mod. The bios is a "Toshiba" one, the file extension is .COM, and I can't find any info about how to mod it. Any info on progress or confirmation that there won't be any tool would be greatly appreciated.
I understand no one succeeded in extracting the toshiba .com file, but is it recorded in the bios chip in the same way of archiving? Anyone tried a backup read from the bios?
I'm starting to think about something a bit different from "onboard" flashing. I bought an ic programmer and trained for soldering with pcb after bricking my 2 laptops and 1 desktop. So for me is very significant how the bios file is deployed on the chip. The problem is that I myself cannot look in that because I've not got a toshiba one in my hand yet. additional: I have 1 laptop & 1 desktop from toshiba to be more exact. The laptop has phoenix bios and desktop award however.
Thanx for your detailed reply, but I had already sold my bricked boards when I bought my ic programmer (and they had soldered chips). I have ever done your "hot replacement" method for other boards and never fail to make a backup *first* as a hot replacement when the board has a socketted bios chip (I have a lot of blank ones). I looked around toshiba's update pages and am interested in the .COM ones. BEFORE looking well I bought a toshiba laptop that had a phoenix bios...that was not interesting. additional: I'm now looking around used Toshiba laptops first released 2007-2009 to get another one. For example Satellite A205 uses a Phoenix BIOS (with a header to be truncated upon programming?) and is moddable while no one has succeeded in Tecra A9 having a Toshiba original BIOS (.COM). So anyone, letting me have a backup read from your bios chip working on Tecra A9 would be appreciated (no need of modded one).
Additionaly, if one is trying bios mod of Toshiba computer, s/he first have to start bios updater application and rapidly find and copy the bios updating files in %temp% folder , before the program ends up in error ( when the machine is different than the BIOS intended to flash or the BIOS has been updated ) or the program starts flashing; these files will be deleted automatically shortly.
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