BIOS Recovery procedures

I thought it would be nice to start a thread like this to make life easyer for those of us who have to go thru recovery procedure.

So here is my litle contribution...

It will be nice if you add your expirience of how did you recoverd from a bad flash.

UPDATE

As of 04.01.2010 Recovery procedures for those of you who have

Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) port, eg. JTAG, EJTAG, TJTAG e.t.c.

How to identify if you have one of this ports and how to build a simple cable that you connect to your working computer and reflash the dead BIOS chip.

For now just a link to wikipedia, but dont worry you wont need one of the expensive devices to connect to the working computer, couse this days I successfuly
recovered bricked board with EJATG port using this simple cable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Test_Action_Group

HP Tool:

http://rapidshare.com/files/113917960/HP_USB_Disk_Storage_Format_Tool.rar

MiniDOS:

http://rapidshare.com/files/113919628/MiniDOS.rar
Phoenix BIOS Recovery

Update: Boot-Block Jumper

http://rapidshare.com/files/149466379/Boot_Block_Jumper.pdf

This is the latest PHLASH16 I could find:

http://rapidshare.com/files/156744719/phlash16_1.6.5.4.rar.html

Tool provided by @offon7544

Here is the Archive with all the files needed and How to for Phoenix BIOS Recovery.

Method 1.

http://www.box.net/shared/j2u98ci67f

How To:

1. Use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool with MiniDOS files to make your Bootable: Flopy, USB Flopy, USB Flash Drive (Flash Drive works in rear cases).

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.
Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.

2. Copy all the files from Rescue to your: Flopy, USB Stick, USB Flopy.

3. Rename your BIOS file to bios.wph and copy it to your: Flopy, USB Stick, USB Flopy.

4. Remove the battery, unplug the computer from the power.

5. 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.

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

7. Leve 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 shold start normaly.

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

Method 2.

http://rapidshare.com/files/105952250/Metod_2.rar

How To:

1. Click on the Phoenix_Crisis_Recovery.exe to make: Flopy, USB Flopy.

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.

Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.

2. Copy all the files from Rescue to your: Flopy, USB Flopy.

3. Rename your BIOS file to bios.wph and copy it to your: Flopy, USB Flopy.

4. Remove the battery, unplug the computer from the power.

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

7. Leve 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 shold start normaly.

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

Method 3.

http://rapidshare.com/files/105952818/Metod_3.rar

How To:

1. Use HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool with MiniDOS files to make your Bootable: Flopy, USB Flopy, USB Flash Drive (Flash Drive works in rear cases).

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.

Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.

2. Copy all the files from Rescue to your: Flopy, USB Stick, USB Flopy.

3. Rename your BIOS file to bios.wph and copy it to your: Flopy, USB Stick, USB Flopy.

4. Remove the battery, unplug the computer from the power.

5. 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.

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

7. Leve 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 shold start normaly.

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

Method 4.

http://rapidshare.com/files/105953337/Metod_4.rar

How To:

1. Click on the Phoenix_Crisis_Recovery.exe to make: Flopy, USB Flopy.

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.

Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.

2. Copy all the files from Rescue to your: Flopy, USB Flopy.

3. Rename your BIOS file to bios.wph and copy it to your: Flopy, USB Flopy.

4. Remove the battery, unplug the computer from the power.

5. 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.

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

7. Leve 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 shold start normaly.

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

Method 5.
I was asked to add this post as method 5:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/870-Bios-Recovery-Procedures?p=261455&viewfull=1#post261455

The HP Tool is located in the archive of the first metod.

Use the metods in order form 1 to 4, unless you think otherwise...

Hope you never use this and if you ever have to GOOD LUCK.

Insyde Recovery

INSYDE BIOS RECOVERY METHOD added 28/11/2009

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?t=13095

AMI BIOS Recovery

AMI has an embedded recovery technique in the 'boot block' of the BIOS. In the event that the BIOS becomes corrupt the boot block can be used to restore
the BIOS to a working state. The routine is called when the 'system block' of the BIOS is empty or corrupt. The restore routine when called will access the
floppy drive (1.44Mb floppy disk drive) looking for a file named AMIBOOT.ROM.

This is the reason the floppy drive light comes on and the drive appears to be in use. If the file (AMIBOOT.ROM) is found it is loaded into the 'system block' of
the BIOS to replace the corrupted information.
To restore your BIOS copy the most recent version of your motherboards BIOS file to a floppy diskette and rename it AMIBOOT.ROM. The diskette does not
need to be bootable or contain a flash utility. It will access the floppy from 2-5 minutes the system will beep four times. Remove the floppy diskette from the
drive and reboot the computer. if when you turn on the system it does not try to access the floppy, press and hold the 'CTRL' and 'HOME' keys at the same
time. This will force the system (assuming the 'boot block' isn't corrupted) to access the flopy and look for the AMIBOOT.ROM file.

Step by Step:

Method 1.

1. Rename the desired AMI BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM and save it on a blank floppy disk. e.g. Rename 12345678.ROM to AMIBOOT.ROM

2. Insert this floppy disk in the floppy drive. Turn On the system

3. If no floppy access occurs press and hold Ctrl-Home to force update. Follow insructions on the screen and it will read the AMIBOOT.ROM file and recover
the BIOS from the A drive.

4. When 4 beeps are heard you may remove the floppy disk.

5. When there is no more activity, wait for a while and restart the computer.

If this does not work, try this:

Method 2. Asus only...

1. Create bootable flopy using the HP Tool and MiniDOS:

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.

Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.

2. Create new text document and type the folowing:

Autoexec.bat download link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/123981086/autoexec.rar

save it as autoexec.bat and copy it to the boot flopy you have created.

3. Rename your BIOS to amiboot.rom and copy it to the bootable flopy.

4. If no floppy access occurs press and hold Ctrl+Home to force update.

5. When there is no more activity, wait for a while and restart the computer.

Latest Afudos that I could find:

http://rapidshare.com/files/123979630/AFUDOS.rar

Tool provided by @offon7544

Method 3.

1. Create bootable flopy using the HP Tool and MiniDOS:

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.

Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.

2. Create new text document and type the folowing:

amif895.exe /iamiboot.rom /pbnc /n

save it as autoexec.bat and copy it to the boot flopy you have created.

Atoexec.bat download link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/115841024/Autoexec.rar
3. Rename your BIOS to amiboot.rom and copy it to the bootable flopy.

4. Start you computer.

5. If no floppy access occurs press and hold Ctrl+Home to force update.

6. When there is no more activity, wait for a while and restart the computer.

Latest amiflash I could find amiflash 8.95:

http://rapidshare.com/files/113925838/amf895.zip

Tool provided by @amiga

AWARD BIOS Recovery

The AWARD BIOS has a similar procedure to AMI. To recover an AWARD BIOS you will need to create a bootable floppy diskette and add the desired BIOS
file (we recommend using the most recent). Award BIOS's generally are in .BIN format, where as AMI was .ROM format. You will also add an AWARD flash
utility (usually awdflash.exe) and an AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

The AWARD BIOS does not automatically restore the BIOS information to the 'system block' like the AMI BIOS does. You will need to add the commands
necessary to flash the BIOS in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The system will run the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, which contains the flash instructions.

Step by Step:

1. Create bootable flopy using the HP Tool and MiniDOS:

When creating the boot Floppy, select from Folder Options to view the hiden and system files and delete or rename the file config.sys if present.

Couse we need DOS with no additional programs that are loaded, which could interfere with the operation of the BIOS flash application.
2. Reaname your bios to bios.bin

3. Copy the BIOS file and flash utility to the diskette.

4. Create an text file with any standard text editor and add the following lines :

@ECHO OFF

awdflash893.exe bios.bin /py/sn/f/cc/r

and save it as autoexec.bat

Autoexec.bat download link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/156801980/Autoexec.rar

5. Copy it to the bootable flopy.

6. Start your computer and if no flopy acces occurs press and hold Ctrl+Home to force update.

7. When there is no more activity, wait for a while and restart your computer.

py = program yes

sn = save no

f = flash

cc = clear cmos

r = reboot

Here is the latest awdflash I could find awdflash v8.93

http://rapidshare.com/files/156742308/awdflash893.rar.html

Tool provided by @offon7544

Here is one of the expirience of one of the mydigitallife forum memebers:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showpost.php?p=20679&postcount=5

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UPDATE

FOR SPI CHIPS WITH SPI-header (7pins INTERFACE)

As Dutchman01 stated, for all of us that own a board with SPI chips and have a SPI-header (7pins INTERFACE) there is a posible way of recovering after a
bad flash and none of the recovery procedures have worked.

Although it's for a electronic enthusiasts here is the link to the thread and the info:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/showthread.php?t=5503

http://richard-burke.dyndns.org/wordpress/tag/spipgm/