I just tried to download the file and unfortunately the file is no longer available. Edit: never mind. I see that it is available in post #65
How do we know the backups of this app are good for restoring or use? I am just curious if the backups have worked in scenarios where people have needed to use/ restore the BIOS backups. And if so, how did they do so?
Hi David, A simple question; could you make a BIOS Backup ToolKit wich works under true DOS (MSDOS 7.1 or similar)? This give a far better indication/result of the contents of the BIOS-chip in question. Thank you kindly for the Windows version! Regards, Harm
Hi Urie, agreed most information can be found this way, did you think that i'am not aware of this? However, the actual chip type isn't displayed, unless you screw the system open, second when reading a BIOS in Windows there's always an overlay resulting in a not 100% pure bios. Why do you think that everybody says, hey when flashing your BIOS please try to do this in pure dos, not in Windows, because there's always some risk involved. When i was modifying BIOS'es in the PC/XT- era (UV erasable EPROMS), we always read the under DOS. Myself i'am more into reading them in a suitable programmer, so that nothing can interfere during a read cycle. ...so after all this, i'am still not able to determine what the typenumber (partnumber) of my SOIC8 chip is wich is fitted in my HP Compaq 6710b notebook, also i still can't read the whole eeprom contents of this machine. The versiondate, checksum, date, manufacturer doesn't interest me, the above two things do however... B.T.W. thank you for replying.
@ coreburner, I understand where you are coming from hope you get a reply from davidxxw but I may be highly unlikely he has not been on forum since February
In the past YES, currently manufacturers do not even provide DOS flash upgrade routing, so no need to worry about risk The risk was coming not from flasher working bad, but from a chance of Windows crashing while upgrading... sebus
Tried this on 2 different Windows 7 x64 computers. When I try to open the file, I receive the error "The kernel library is invalid!" Any ideas on this?
Thanks for this great tool. Edit to ask a question: anybody knows how to read and save the EC-BIOS in modern laptops?
Tested on oldie JetWay V266B with Windows 2000 SP4 and found working w/o a glitch. Resulting BIOS can be saved and opened with Modbin and therefore it is intact. Thanks, good to be able to save BIOS from Windows Could we be able to flash bios from Windows? PS. update! Run fine on oldie Dell OptiPlex GX110 (PIII 1GHz, Win2k SP4) as well! Great, purrfect! Thanks a lot!