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Thanks again!!

I too think you are right about the SOP or SOIC bit. Let me get back the notebook and check.

I am in India.

Grateful for all the help.

Thank you drgn997

Seasons greetings to you and all the others.

My hardware chap has given up inspite of giving him the right bin file.

My only hope is to try and do it myself. (Totally green and trying to bite off something like this ) :)

My question is can I purchase something like Willem ...

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,

After having failed in getting the Crisis Recovery to kick in for my Sony VAIO VGN FE31Z, I have got someone to remove the ROM and try to reflash in a EEPROM programmer. Unfortunately cant reflash using the Sony supplied exe. Doesnt work even after extracting the .wph or renaming the .wph as ...

Hello everyone,

have been going crazy getting the correct keys to press whilst powering on my Sony VAIO VGN FE31Z so that the Crisis recovery floppy is read to reflash the bad BIOS.

Came across many posts which said fn + B or Win + B but none of these work on the Sony notebook. Saw many posts of ...

Hello,

Am plagued with a similar problem. Did you find the key combination to access the Boot Block of your Sony?

The usual Fn + B Win + B etc do not work.

Grateful if you can help bring my Vaio FE31Z back from being a brick to life