Bios Mods -The Best BIOS Update and Modification Source

Hello,

After having failed at getting the crisis recovery of my Sony VAIO VGN FE31Z, I have got some one to physically reflash the BIOS ROM in an EEPROM programmer. Unfortunately the .exe downloaded from the Sony site and from the BIOS Agent site is of no use. Even the extracted .wph file is of no use. The EEPROM programmers needs a bin file.

Can anyone help? I could upload the Sony supplied file if some one can help convert it to a bin file. Or could someone point me in the right direction.

grateful for any help that eventually unbricks my notebook.

Thanks

Crisis Recovery Works With .WPH Files. Follow these instructions:-

README 1RST

Note: This procedure is for Phoenix BIOS`es only and in
most cases the USB Stick might not work.

1. Unrar CRISDISK

2. Take your bios file and rename it to BIOS.WPH. This means you also
must rename the extension of your bios file to .WPH So, if you have
a bios file that is 8956.rom, then you must rename it BIOS.WPH.

3. After renaming your bios file, copy and paste into the CRISDISK folder
and overwrite the existing BIOS.WPH file when asked.

4. Insert a Floppy Disk into your Floppy Drive and wait for Windows to
recognize it.

5. Right click on CRISDISK.bat file and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. Follow
the onscreen instructions to create a Phoenix Bios Crisis Recovery Disk.

6. Remove the battery (if any) unplug the power cord from the computer.

7. Hold down: Fn+B or WinKey+B (On some new Acer Laptop's Fn+Esc and on some new
Fujitsu Siemens Laptop's Fn+F) and while holding plug the computer
in to power (do not plug the battery) and pres the power button.

8. Now you should hear the flopy drive working, hold the keys for a
while and then let go.

7. Leave the computer for at least 10 min. and if the computer does not
restart it self turn the power down.

8. Plug the battery and the power sorce and if everything went OK the
computer should start normaly.


Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/747181/Phoenix%2...20Disk.zip , Rename the .WPH file to BIOS.WPH and follow the instructions!

Good Luck!

Admin

Thanks but Sony does not have a key sequence to trigger the BIOS block so that the floppy drive and the crisis disk is accessed.

Have searched high and low and realise that Sony does not have any key combination ( tried them all), hence the attempt to reflash in an EEPROM programmer.

Any help with converting the .wph to .bin ?

Thanx

[censored] imple as itsounds , have you tried renaming it?

I dont think theres any way of properly converting them , apart from maybe opening the WPH in hex and copying it into a .bin

I can try that if you post a link to the WPH

Regards
Admin