12-14-2018, 08:55 AM
Hello there.
Before anything let me say you seem to be an awesome community.
I just love the people who dig into hardware complications.
However I'm not really talented in these kind of things. So I want some help about something really basic:
How can one make a backup/copy of ones own existing BIOS .rom file( or .bin file if there's a difference)?
I tried a lot of different softwares -many of which downloaded from this very website- but to no avail.
I tried almost all available versions of "WinPhlash(Phoenix' WinFlash)", a software called "Universal BIOS Backup Toolkit", Dell's own BIOS flash utility(I tried to find a command prompt switch for making a backup of my BIOS) and a bunch of other utilities even some old ones like "CBROM". But still can't manage to get any of them to work.
Anyway I'm on a Dell Latitude E6400. A 2008 released laptop with a seemingly custom phoenix BIOS.
Anyone who finds a solution to this will be a great help to me.
By the way I'm new here so I might be posted my thread in the wrong forum. Feel free to move the thread in the proper section if here's not the right one.
Thanks in advance.
Before anything let me say you seem to be an awesome community.
I just love the people who dig into hardware complications.However I'm not really talented in these kind of things. So I want some help about something really basic:
How can one make a backup/copy of ones own existing BIOS .rom file( or .bin file if there's a difference)?
I tried a lot of different softwares -many of which downloaded from this very website- but to no avail.
I tried almost all available versions of "WinPhlash(Phoenix' WinFlash)", a software called "Universal BIOS Backup Toolkit", Dell's own BIOS flash utility(I tried to find a command prompt switch for making a backup of my BIOS) and a bunch of other utilities even some old ones like "CBROM". But still can't manage to get any of them to work.
Anyway I'm on a Dell Latitude E6400. A 2008 released laptop with a seemingly custom phoenix BIOS.
Anyone who finds a solution to this will be a great help to me.
By the way I'm new here so I might be posted my thread in the wrong forum. Feel free to move the thread in the proper section if here's not the right one.
Thanks in advance.