EXTRACT/DECOMPRES Exe file of Dell Insprion 700M bios update

[jhp]

hi i need some help. my unit is a Dell 700M inspiron. i got my bios corrupted and now i cant boot it up. The only thing here is to unsolder the bios chip and reprogram it using a willem programmer but my problem is this....

how can i decompress/decompile the exe file which is downloaded from the dELL website. i downloaded the A01_700M.exe from dell website and i couldnt get the rom file. i used the tool LZexe which i saw in the forum too but it is of no use.

I am quite helpless with this so i do hope there are experts there that can help me extract the exe file and get the rom file

thanks

[Borg Number One]

I already sent the mail with extracted plain BIOS data and to you.
Did you get it at all?

[jhp]

hi borg number one....

i got the file you sent via email. thanks so much. i do hope we can help each other out further in the future.

Philip

[GNUisNotUnix]

There are some interesting parameters for the bios update program.. maybe one of them will dump the bios:

http://www.alsway.com/index.php?option= ... &topic=1.0

Just in case somebody needs them


EDIT: The link has changed

[Borg Number One]

Hi.

Thank you very much for this.

<DELLBIOS update program.exe> -writeromfile / -writehexfile / -writehdrfile

are the most important switches.

[GNUisNotUnix]

writehexfile doesnt seem to work anyway... I would say that -readgzfile is interesting too

[Borg Number One]

-readgzfile makes it possible that the self extracting DELL BIOS update file
uses another/ an external (gzip-ed) BIOS file for the FLASH process.