I Need to Unlock Phoenix BIOS - Need You Gurus Help

[Sml6397]

Hello koolx,

Could you dump your notebook's NVRAM Token Table please? To do this, follow the following:

Create a bootable USB flashdrive with DOS. You could also use a CD, but a flashdrive is preferable. Instructions for this process can be found here. You can skip Step #8.

After this, extract this archive to the root directory of the drive. This archive contains symcmos, the utility used to read from and write to your CMOS NVRAM.

DOS Commands for Reading/Writing to the CMOS NVRAM:

Code:

Read:
symcmos -v2 -LDefault.txt

Code:

Write:
symcmos -v2 -UModified.txt

Run the read command above after you boot into DOS. The resulting text file is your NVRAM Token Table dump. Please upload this file.

[koolx]

Hello koolx,

Could you dump your notebook's NVRAM Token Table please? To do this, follow the following:

Create a bootable USB flashdrive with DOS. You could also use a CD, but a flashdrive is preferable. Instructions for this process can be found here. You can skip Step #8.

After this, extract this archive to the root directory of the drive. This archive contains symcmos, the utility used to read from and write to your CMOS NVRAM.

DOS Commands for Reading/Writing to the CMOS NVRAM:

Code:

Read:
symcmos -v2 -LDefault.txt

Code:

Write:
symcmos -v2 -UModified.txt

Run the read command above after you boot into DOS. The resulting text file is your NVRAM Token Table dump. Please upload this file.

Hey Steven. I did all that you instructed. But it produced a default.txt file that contains nothing when I opened it. Was I supposed to shut off my laptop then boot into DOS to run the 'read' command? Was I supposed to also run the 'write' command even though you didn't specifically ask me to do so?

[Sml6397]

Hello koolx,

I think you forgot to attach the .txt file.

[koolx]

Hello koolx,

I think you forgot to attach the .txt file.

Steven, please re-read my last post that I re-edited moments ago. I can't upload the file because the site won't let me, I think because there's nothing in the file. When I open it, there's nothing written in it. Also, I copied and pasted what transpired in DOS after I ran the read command. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.


F:\>symcmos -v2 -LDefault.txt
Write literal report to file: DEFAULT.TXT

combineFiles (0h, COMBINE.ROM)...
initPdmEntry ...
search '$PDM' ... found at f0007780h
signature : $PDM☺♂\▬ì
revision : 01h
structLength : 0bh
checksum : 5ch
entryPointOff : 8d16h
entryPointSeg : f000h
initNvTable ...
initNvTable 'BCPNV' found at f0007d5fh
signature : BCPNV
majorRev : 00h
minorRev : 01h
bcpLength : 001fh
cmosControl : 00h
cmosDfltTable.offset: 7d5fh
cmosDfltTable.size : 7d5fh
extCmosStart : 00h
extCmosEnd : 00h
cmosCRCSignature : 0664h
cmosCRCMask : ffffh
tokenTableStart : 800ch
tokenTableEnd : 84a1h
stdDefaults : 7e04h
mfgDefaults : 7f04h
mediaStart : 5551h
setBIOSDefaults(0h) ...
updateNvram(0h, UPDATE.TXT) ...
reportLiteral(1h, DEFAULT.TXT) ...
nvTableEntry start=f000800ch end=f00084a1h
[ 1]: 0h 01h,F098h Skip.
[ 2]: 3h 51h,F0A8h >

[koolx]

Steven. Please let me know what to do next. I encountered issues and need to know what to do. I'd appreciate it.