- First, you need to get the Crisis Recovery Disk Tool. Download it here.
- Once you have the program, run it, (I checked the “Format” option – I couldn’t get it to work without doing that, results may and probably will vary), and you will now have a floppy that you will be able to use to recover the BIOS. But you’re not done quite yet.
- There is a file on the disk called BIOS.WPH which needs to be replaced with the file for your specific BIOS (mine was EL80107B.ROM, files will vary). The file needs to be put on the floppy in place of the 512 kb WPH file, and you MUST rename your BIOS file (i.e. EL80107B.ROM) to BIOS.WPH. Changing the extension is necessary.
- Remove the battery from the laptop, and unplug the AC power cord. Then plug in your USB floppy drive (with the Crisis Recovery Disk in it and ready to go). Next, With the AC still unplugged, press and hold the Fn(Function) and B buttons. While still holding them, plug the AC power in, then press the power button.
- The system should power on, but there should be no LEDs lit up, and the fan should not slow down like it normally does. If that is not what happens, and you get LEDs that light up, and the fan slows like normal, unplug the AC power and try using the Win and B keys instead. Once the system has booted into the BIOS recovery mode, the floppy light will flash as it reads the BIOS file from the disk. You can then release the Fn+B keys (or Win+B ). After a minute or two, the floppy light will stop flashing.
- DO NOT shut the computer off, as the process is only half complete. The system is now flashing the BIOS.
- After the floppy light goes off, leave the computer on for two or three minutes; more if you want to be sure, and if the system does not reboot itself (mine did not), unplug the AC power. I let mine go for five minutes or so and pulled the plug (the power button would not shut the system off no matter how long I held it; I suspect this is normal). Five minutes should be plenty; however long you wait, try to be patient. My five minutes of waiting seemed to take forever, but paid off. Better to be without the laptop an extra minute or two than two weeks while it’s back to wherever it came from having a new chip installed or the old chip re-flashed. Plug the AC power back into the laptop and fire it up.
- If all goes well, you’ll have made a very expensive paperweight into something useful again.
- It seems this works for most newer models of laptops with Phoenix BIOSes (from what I’ve seen). Forums I’ve read have said that it may be either Fn+B or Win+B to boot into BIOS recovery mode.
Hi,
Im having a “105-Unsupported wireless broadband device detected. System Halted.” problem. i did some research and i think it will require a bios recovery like you explain.
I bought the usb floppy drive and done all the step like you explain.I got it from other forum.Its the same step but very few people knows how to do things like this.
The problem is after plug in the power cable, holding the win+b key with the floppy drive and the floppy all ready in, the notebook come out with a 1 second loud beep continuously. same thing happen with out the floppy drive in.
It seams like nothing happening.Please help.
The lappy is Compaq Presario V3000
Phoenix Bios f.26
Intel dual core processor
Please help. im working on this for two weeks now.
Your help is very much appreciated
Hi Mave,
Normally this error message is a result of adding an unsupported wireless card, however the BIOS itself shouldn’t be corrupt. If this is the case, simply put the old wireless card back in and look for a custom modification in our forums to see if support for your custom wireless card can be added into your BIOS.
Hi TheWiz,
Thank you for your reply.I think the problem caused by a 3g mobile broadband modem.It got something to do with the compaq whitelist i think.However the bios is not corrupted because i still can enter the bios setup page.
It’s just that it wont boot any media at all.The 105 error comes up just after the compaq logo.
Is there any way that i can get rid of the old bios and install a new one coz the current bios wont boot anything at all.Just like the method mentioned in this thread.I’ve tried doing it with floppy drive,flash drive, hdd drive, but all wont work. It give me a loud one long beep + two short beep after i hit the win + B key.still nothing,also it wont read the floppy.
Please help me.I’ve been stuck with this problem for quite sometimes now.
Your Kind help and guidance are very much appreciated.
Thank you
Mave,
Please send me an email via the contact form so I can send you more information.
TheWiz
Hello,
I have an Ultra 40M2 Workstation from Sun and the Phoenix BIOS was corrupted.
Do you think that this procedure will work also for this system?
I will need to look for a windows keyboard because Sun’s do not have the win key
Thanks.
Tthis method should work for the Sun system as well.
hi,i’m facing similar prob i have Satellite A500 and i do the bios update thing and it seems to be corrupted now (black screen) nothing work.
i read the upper issue but i still don’t know to replace the BIOS.WPH (with what file) , reply plz
Hi
I’m having a Toshiba Satellite U400 laptop with a BIOS Phoenix crashed after a failed update. Now, after I tried to start it I’ve got only the black screen and a long and two short beeps (from time to time).
I followed the steps you showed above, but nothing. I tried even without the hard disk and the same result – nothing.
Have you got any clue what I can do to rewrite the BIOS on chip ( I have the original BIOS.wph)
Thanx
There might be a different recovery name associated with your BIOS. Please try Andy’s Phoenix SLIC tool to see if it provides an alternative recovery name.
hello, I just wanted to ask if this also works with a bootable USB.
It is recommended the USB be completely formatted and empty except for the files – but it “should” be alright if it is bootable.
The crisis tool download link is broken. Please update.
Hey guys,
having trouble with Samsung R519, dead BIOS (can’t get in, can’t boot). Although it reacts on F2 to enter (by writing Please wait..), all I get is black screen. I got myself a crisis disk mentioned before, but the problem is the original BIOS file is ~1,56MB and won’t fit into FDD. I can’t find smaller file (like older BIOS) anywhere, spent almost 1 whole day searching.. No matter what BIOS, any BIOS is better than this dead one.
Any suggestions?? Thanks anyone with some idea
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