News of BIOS Utilities & Flash Programs

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
...

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 ...

Hello everybody

Is there somebody who has interest in decoding/uncompressing/extracting the BIOS of a modern Toshiba laptop?

This would be necessary to enable Tohsiba users to mod their BIOSes. I have found the file TBDECODE.DLL within the Windows BIOS-Update, so I suppose, that that file is the one who expands the file bio0044t com-file so that the bios can be patched.

I use IDA Free to look at what that file is doing, but have ...