News of BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs

Hi

A question: What tools would I need to edit a Award Mediallon v6.0 bios file? Because I've tried to load the bios file for an Asus p4sp-mx motherboard with modbin6, but it shows the following message: "Bios version not 6.0". And I've tried several versions of modbin6 without success! (and with cbrom I've got the same result as well). Also, I've used Award Bios Editor to open this file and it shows this message: ...

We have about 400 Acer Veriton L410 desktop PC's for which we need the Chassis Asset Tag set (SMBIOS Type 3).
Acer Support cannot help us with a utility that can set this under Windows.
Does anyone know a way how to do this?
Thnx

Hi,

flashrom (http://www.flashrom.org/) recently got support for DOS (it has been available for Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/MacOSX for quite some time). I thought maybe some people would be interested.

Advantages:

• Free
• Support for pretty much every modern flash chip (especially SPI flash)
• Support for pretty much every chipset released in the last 12 years (some new Nvidia chipsets are work in progress)
• Support for a few network cards, SATA/PATA(IDE) controllers, graphics cards
• Support for external flasher/programmer ...

I figured on sharing a gem of an idea I found some time ago, regarding PC-Partner & Octek motherboards from the 1998 to 2001 period, {though i'm sure "most" Octek
boards are just re-branded PC-Partner boards anyway}..
All boards I've found that were manufactured by these 2 companies, seem to always have a variety of voltage settings via "JP8 & JP15" jumpers, 2 lots of 3, & in some cases 1 lot of 3
& ...

Hi all,

Anyone have an access to/info about the Intel BMP (BIOS Modification Program) utility which is used to modify Intel VGA BIOS?

TIA,

a.k.a Pinczakko

Hello all, I'm new here and i want to ask something that makes me confused.

Problem :

I recently insert SLIC from Dell to my nforce610i. Then, i want to update my BIOS, but Winflash keep says "Onboard BIOS not Award BIOS". Someone ask me to re-flash my BIOS from DOS mode. But i have no Floppy Disk Drive here, so i can't use floppy disk to make bootable BIOS Flasher.

What should I do ...

i have had a couple of people to mod my bios for me (just a simple edit to show a option) and all of them have made my computer not boot up (i have managed to fix it with a simple hotflash

anyway i tried to edit it myself with a couple of programs and they all come up with errors

1st is awdbedit

i select the bios file (.bin) and i get this
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Hi all,

Could someone point me to a tool/method to edit an Intel BIOS (CO96510J.86A.6094.2009.0406.1239) on a DQ965CO Mobo?

I already have the .BIO file downloaded from the Intel site and was able to flash it successfully.

On a related note, anyone know of a windows based tool that can change the BIOS values? I swear I saw a console based utility a few years ago with an ASCII-gfx interface that could change some settings... ...

I have used MODBIN,MODBIN6,awdbedit, ect only to find a brick wall with bios bin file editing. No matter what, if i modify a bin file, i get a checksum error trying to flash my bios. or even trying to load the modified bin file into winflash. also tried using a checksum utility wih no luck. im going to try loading the OEM bin file into winflash and read the checksum and somehow change the modified ...

Hi,
We have a strange problem.

We have a Shuttle computer and we have (we think) flased a wrong bin file into the BIOS.

Result : When you start the computer, nothing happens. The fan is running at full speed, but nothing comes on the screen.

So we thought to buy a WILLEM programmer. We bought it in Hong KONG.
The BIOS chip is a SST49F004A (a 4 mbit chip).
We have downloaded a couple ...