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Can I use winphlash to flash the bios?

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Post Mon May 05, 2003 7:20 pm
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Post Mon May 05, 2003 7:20 pm
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I am a user of sony notebook,In order to fix some problems,I want to update the bios,but sony only offer the dos version (it needs a floppy and I have nothing).When I ask the technican of sony how to solve it,he told me I must buy a usb floppy,it's terrible!
So I want to know If the winphlash (rom file is bios.wph) support the format of bios.rom(In the instruction,I know in the floppy there will be three files:phlash.exe(phoenixphlash utility 4.0 release 1.57,bios.rom and platform.bin),Can somebody help me?


Post Mon May 05, 2003 11:52 pm
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I wouldn't flash in Windows under the best of circumstances.
Flash your BIOS at your own risk.

Post Tue May 06, 2003 11:13 am
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but I have a floppy disk,I cann't flash it in dos

Post Tue May 06, 2003 5:55 pm
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If Sony provides a tool to flash under Windows, then you may be safe.

If they don't, I wouldn't risk it.
Flash your BIOS at your own risk.

Post Tue May 06, 2003 10:47 pm
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If you have Windows 9x/ME there or Windows NT/2K/XP with FAT filesystem, you might be able to boot from a CD and run the flash utility from the hard drive.
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Post Wed May 07, 2003 8:55 am
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I've seen a lot of failures related to windows based flashers in the Dell Laptop forums at the dell website. Either use a floppy or don't do it.

Post Wed May 07, 2003 2:45 pm
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Rainbow wrote:
If you have Windows 9x/ME there or Windows NT/2K/XP with FAT filesystem, you might be able to boot from a CD and run the flash utility from the hard drive.


Either that or make a new bootable DOS/Win9x partition.
Flash your BIOS at your own risk.

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