Can I use winphlash to flash the bios?

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renascence
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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?
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I wouldn't flash in Windows under the best of circumstances.
Flash your BIOS at your own risk.
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but I have a floppy disk,I cann't flash it in dos
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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.
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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.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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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.
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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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