Phoenix BIOS Problem
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Hello everyone,
I have a laptop that had a BIOS problem (it needs to be reflashed but the boot gets stuck at the BIOS level (which is a Phoenix BIOS) before it can start the Windows boot process), and I would like to know if there is a way (like on AMI and Award BIOS) to reflash it by booting not from a floppy disk but from a USB stick (my laptop doesn’t have a floppy disk drive, but even though it’s old, it supports booting from USB) with a DOS boot + the flashing tool + the BIOS ROM on my USB stick.
It might seem a bit impossible, but actually the BIOS is not completely dead (I see the IBM ThinkPad logo followed by an error message (which doesn't matter, I'm sure it's a BIOS issue ^^), so I need to be able to reprogram this EEPROM in order to (finally ^^) get my laptop working again.
If anyone can help me or provide a solution, I would be infinitely grateful :D
Thanks in advance and thanks to those who took the time to read this post in its entirety ;)
I have a laptop that had a BIOS problem (it needs to be reflashed but the boot gets stuck at the BIOS level (which is a Phoenix BIOS) before it can start the Windows boot process), and I would like to know if there is a way (like on AMI and Award BIOS) to reflash it by booting not from a floppy disk but from a USB stick (my laptop doesn’t have a floppy disk drive, but even though it’s old, it supports booting from USB) with a DOS boot + the flashing tool + the BIOS ROM on my USB stick.
It might seem a bit impossible, but actually the BIOS is not completely dead (I see the IBM ThinkPad logo followed by an error message (which doesn't matter, I'm sure it's a BIOS issue ^^), so I need to be able to reprogram this EEPROM in order to (finally ^^) get my laptop working again.
If anyone can help me or provide a solution, I would be infinitely grateful :D
Thanks in advance and thanks to those who took the time to read this post in its entirety ;)
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In the first instance, couldn't you set your BIOS to default (default BIOS) or, since you can't do a clear CMOS on a laptop, at least remove the battery and then put it back to see...
Thank you for your reply ;)
For the battery, it's already done (unfortunately without effect) and I forgot to mention that I can't enter the BIOS settings (so I can't reset it ^^).
For the battery, it's already done (unfortunately without effect) and I forgot to mention that I can't enter the BIOS settings (so I can't reset it ^^).
Hello, what you can try, but I've never done it since my PC doesn't boot from USB, is to try to recover a WIN98 boot disk on which you could add the softwares you're talking about and copy everything onto your USB to see if you can launch the flashing at startup under DOS. Indeed, you can download such a disk online but it asks you to insert a blank one for the copy, whereas you don't have a floppy disk drive. That's all I personally see.. A++
Well, I made it simpler; I managed to create a bootable key (on the computer I'm writing on), but on my other computer (the one with the BIOS issue), it doesn't want to boot (at least automatically) from the key, although it recognizes it (I'm sure of that).
Well, it was before the HDD if I remember correctly, but in any case, I get the same results with only the connected key (removing the HDD).
It doesn't matter whether you remove the hard drive or not; if the BIOS is not configured to boot from the USB drive, it won't work. However, I am still a bit concerned about your motherboard, as it is very rare not to be able to access the BIOS.
Well, that's exactly a BIOS problem ^^
And when I was talking about the hard drive, it was in case the BIOS wanted to boot from the hard drive before booting from the USB drive, so removing it would have solved the problem ;)
And when I was talking about the hard drive, it was in case the BIOS wanted to boot from the hard drive before booting from the USB drive, so removing it would have solved the problem ;)