About extracting oprom of Phoenix bios

[int0x13]

Hi all, I have a FSC laptop with a phoenix bios, and i just wanted to extract the Option rom from it, which tool can i use for this simple task? I also wana know what is the link between Phoenix and Award bios, i often read that when people talk about phoenix that do not distinguish with award, is it same thing?
Thanks, by the way your forum seems great, very techical stuff.

[1234s282]

Please post the make and model of your laptop and tell us which option rom you want and we will upload it.

Alternatively , to save everyone lots of time it might be available here www.bios-mods.com/resources

Award and Phoenix used to be separate companies with separate bioses but then Phoenix bought Award

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[int0x13]

The oprom i want is the video card oprom from the "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2300 (FSC)" on the laptop "'AMILO Pi 2530", i did try cbrom 1.98 with no luck

[Wobble]

Hi all, I have a FSC laptop with a phoenix bios, and i just wanted to extract the Option rom from it, which tool can i use for this simple task? I also wana know what is the link between Phoenix and Award bios, i often read that when people talk about phoenix that do not distinguish with award, is it same thing?
Thanks, by the way your forum seems great, very techical stuff.

I can actually help with this because i recently wanted to do the same thing to my thinkpad t500. its actually quite easy.

first of all you need andyP's latest phoenix tools located here

as of writing its version 1.70

next you will want to open your rom file in the tool. at this point the bios is extracted to the sub folder called "dump" poke around for a 64KB file and poke at it with radeon bios editor till you find the one for your card (RBE can be found here)

after you find the rom and such you probably are wondering how to put a modified one back in?

now select OTHER in the manufacturer drop-down.
next hit the advanced button at the bottom and click through the warning.

then under control options check the boxes for No SLIC and Allow user to modify other modules. then hit done to close the advanced options window.

after that hit the go button it will then pause what its doing with a pop up saying "You can now make manual alterations to any module in the dump directory" at this point you can place your modified module in the dump folder overwriting the original one.

once your all set hit the OK button and close the pop up window your new bios will be named BIOSNAME_SLIC.ROM

this bios contains the modified option rom you put in the folder.

however i will warn you from my experience modifying the option rom for the video card can lead to two outcomes.

one is the system will boot but no video output at all you will have to blind flash back just like a bad video card flash.

two the system will not post or even stay on it will boot for a second and turn off (i had this last night when i tired replacing my cards rom with a stock radeon 3650 256M desktop bios) however this will only happen if your laptop is trying to use the card in my case it was fine if the bios was reset by pulling the internal bios battery and resetting to switchable graphics. at which point i was LUCKILY able to flash back.

you have been warned! ;-) good luck!