Converter wph --> bin need!

by **Ger@ld** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:33 pm

Hello,

a friend did brick his Acer Aspire 1652WLMI
The recover with Crisis disk and bios.wph file failed.
Is it possible, to convert a wph file to bin? :roll:

With an bin File I'm able to remove the FLASH Chip, reprogram and replace it

Unfortunaly new BIOS is also an wph file :evil:

thanks Ger@ld

by **drgn997** » Sat May 23, 2009 7:15 pm

Hello,
I had a similar problem with an Acer Aspire 3000-ZL5, all you need is an Hex Editor. On Acer Support website there're 4 BIOS updates, 3 for laptops with ATIs Graphics Card and 1 more for Intel Graphic Card, versions 3A43 and 3A45. There are 4 files available, the size of your Firmware chip is 512KB (7FFFFh starting from 00000h). Open the WPH BIOS file that corresponds to the graphic card installed in your laptop with your Hex Editor and go to the file position 80000, erase everything from that position to the end, you should end up at 7FFFF if done correctly, nothing more nothing less than that. At file offset 7FFF0 it should start with byte E9 xx xx than in these versions should be E9 3F B4. Save the file with a different name or overwrite it and you'll end up with a file size of 524,288 bytes, once you check this you're ready to program your chip with this file. Very simple.

DRGN997

by **Ger@ld** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:33 pm

Hi drgn997,

I've found the same way

But unfortunately is my english not so good, to tell, what I did :oops:

I tested two ways:
At first I take a backup from my Award BIOS with WinPhlash (Phoenix flashtool) and again with Winflash. With Award BIOS files I'm familiar :wink:

So I'd found it.
To verify, if it's right, I did this modification with the original wph file and did open original wph and this new rom file Phoenixeditor.
Bingoooo! Phoenixeditor can open both files without error

A good question is, for wath is the rest in wph? Maybe an image from NVRAM :?:

Or informations about flash-algorythm? In HEX-editor be some chip names visible...

Ger@ld

by **toosour** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:44 am

Was so happy to see this post.

Exactly what I am looking for my Sony Vaio VGN FE31Z.

Grateful for any pointers for converting the Sony Vaio .wph to .bin

The uploaded .wph can be found here:

htt://vikiran.org/BIOS.zip

Thanks

by **drgn997** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:32 am

toosour wrote:Was so happy to see this post.

Exactly what I am looking for my Sony Vaio VGN FE31Z.

Grateful for any pointers for converting the Sony Vaio .wph to .bin

The uploaded .wph can be found here:

htt://vikiran.org/BIOS.zip

Thanks

Hello,
all you need to do is to open the .wph file with an HEX editor an delete everything from address 100,000 Hex to the end, save changes and then rename it to a .bin extension. You'll end up with a file with a size of 1,048,576 bytes.

The last eight bytes of the file are:
EA A0 B8 00 F0 00 00 00

DRGN997

by **sharky** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:06 am

toosour wrote:Grateful for any pointers for converting the Sony Vaio .wph to .bin

Usually the easiest way is to check the file size (in kB) then round it down to the next power of 2. Examples are 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096. The rounded down number is the destination file size. Then you run (Linux/*BSD/Solaris/...)

Code: Select all: dd if=bios.wph bs=1024k count=1 of=bios.bin

bs specifies the destination size, bios.wph is the original file and bios.bin is the .bin file you want. The example above is for a .wph file slightly larger than 1024kB. For a .wph file slightly larger than 512kB, you have to use bs=512k instead. You can probably guess how to handle .wph files with a size slightly larger than 2048kB.

To verify that the file is OK, run

Code: Select all: hexdump -C bios.bin|tail -n 2

and the output should look like

Code: Select all: 0007fff0 ea xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx |................| 00080000

or

Code: Select all: 000ffff0 eb xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx |................| 00100000

or

Code: Select all: 000ffff0 e9 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx |................| 00100000

Basically, the last line should start with e9/ea/eb and the first column (address) should be 0x7fff0 (for 512kB BIOS) or 0xffff0 (for 1024kB BIOS). Stuff marked with xx or .. is not important.

by **THEREU** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:19 pm

Could you help me with how to convert .bin file to .wph?

the bios file is here ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software10 ... p43099.exe

When i extract the executable i get a asp5.13 which is a bin file, how do i convert .bin file to .wph?

by **sharky** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:24 am

THEREU wrote:Could you help me with how to convert .bin file to .wph?

Sorry, that is not possible without detailed board information (and no, the board name, chipset and configuration are not enough). Besides that, .wph is undocumented and a manually created .wph has the risk of bricking your computer.

Why would anyone want to convert a .bin to a .wph? Either you use the vendor flashing tool with the BIOS file (.bin or .wph or whatever) that comes with it, or you use an external programmer or flashrom or Uniflash with a BIOS .bin.