Virtual BIOS viewer

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  1. cocachris89

    cocachris89 MDL Senior Member

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    Hey everyone,

    Is there a way of viewing a BIOS bin/rom file to explore the menu structure and options?

    Would QEMU be able to load a bin file extracted from a hardware BIOS chip?
     
  2. Tito

    Tito Super Mod / Adviser Staff Member

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    1. Using QEMU or similar virtualization solutions, you can't do it.
    2. Phoenix BIOS Editor can preview vanilla Phoenix roms, but its old, not generic & error-prone.
    3. If the rom is UEFI compliant, then it can be possible to extract the setup utility module & get the idea of the available menus/submenus.