BIOS Problem

[wduncan]

I purchased a phased out corporate PC for my daughter's schoolwork. I need to reload the BIOS...not a problem except for the fact that they have been customized for that company and nobody has a copy on diskette. I need a utility that will copy the BIOS from another identical machine to a diskette that I can then load onto my machine.

[BFlurie]

D/L the file "Bios":
http://www.geocities.com/mbockelkamp/mysoft_d.htm

[This message has been edited by BFlurie (edited 11-28-2000).]

[badflash]

I would not use that utility to copy the bios. It only copies the bios segment, not the entire bios. Flashing just that will likely kill the computer.

If you use the latest AMI or AWARD bios flash utility it will give you an option to save the old bios file to floppy. You can then abort without flashing the bios.

As long as the program recognizes the computer's chip set this will work.

You can contact me off line at jack@badflash.com or go to my site at www.badflash.com (http://www.badflash.com) for more information

[BFlurie]

Hmm, after reading the instructions (duh) more closely, it seems (correct if I'm wrong) the BIOS dump (copy) would be complete and accurate as long as done from a DOS environment where no memory manager is loaded (himem.sys) -- say from a Safe-mode Dos prompt or a minimal boot-floppy (DOS boot-floppy necessary for an NT system).

[This message has been edited by BFlurie (edited 11-28-2000).]