Exracting a bios .rom from a Toshiba bios update
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:40 am
Dear reader,
I have been experiencing some BIOS problems with my laptop since I had bought it 5 years ago. Some of these problems include: grub not appearing unless windows is HIBERNATED. Veracrypt not being able to show a decryption password on boot. Only 20% of live USB’s work. And the problems go on. I have fully erased the SSD ( dd if=/dev/zero ) and these problems still remain.
I have determined that this is most likely a BIOS problem, and I just have a buggy BIOS, and I would like to attempt to debug it.
I have downloaded and extracted the .exe from Toshiba’s website and I have found the BIOS resides in a file called BIO0089T.COM (find here )
However, looking at the hexcode, this looks like no executable that I have ever seen (far too much entropy, but still strings of 0xffffffff (so not ecrypted or compressed, but still has too much to be normal).
So the juicy question: how do I either further extract (decompress / decrypt / etc ) it, or is this the BIOS itself and I am just dumb?
Laptop: Toshiba KIRABOOK PSU7FA-00U00K
I have been experiencing some BIOS problems with my laptop since I had bought it 5 years ago. Some of these problems include: grub not appearing unless windows is HIBERNATED. Veracrypt not being able to show a decryption password on boot. Only 20% of live USB’s work. And the problems go on. I have fully erased the SSD ( dd if=/dev/zero ) and these problems still remain.
I have determined that this is most likely a BIOS problem, and I just have a buggy BIOS, and I would like to attempt to debug it.
I have downloaded and extracted the .exe from Toshiba’s website and I have found the BIOS resides in a file called BIO0089T.COM (find here )
However, looking at the hexcode, this looks like no executable that I have ever seen (far too much entropy, but still strings of 0xffffffff (so not ecrypted or compressed, but still has too much to be normal).
So the juicy question: how do I either further extract (decompress / decrypt / etc ) it, or is this the BIOS itself and I am just dumb?
Laptop: Toshiba KIRABOOK PSU7FA-00U00K