Hi,
I'm trying to flash the BIOS on this laptop with a BIOS I found from this thread
here but I'm having a few issues:
The modified BIOS author first says to Run flash.bat as administrator. Doing so causes the command prompt to flicker and then nothing else to happen.
He then says:
Quote:Ok friend,
to flash It from Dos You need a phlash.exe tool, then
You have to prepare an USB Dos Formatted Bootable Stick and copy all files into
then Boot from USB Dos and execute pflash /cvar /bbl /sa /sv /v 54CN18WW.ROM
but You need convert .WPH to .ROM (very complicated).
I suggest to copy bios_mod folder to C HD root rename It as mod, then
much easy is to open a Comand Prompt as Administrator CLI window and You got
C:\ then use a comands sequence :
cd C:\mod
flash.bat
That's It
Let me know
Regards
When I follow those steps, the Phoenix UEFI Flash Tool pops up and the bios will start to update. The computer will then crash with a Windows Stop Code of PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA saysing that WinFlash64.sys flailed.
I then tried to create a bootable DOS drive and installed the modified BIOS from there, following the directions in the
HOW TO FLASH MODIFIED OR ORIGINAL BIOS (PHOENIX) sticky thread. It didn't work the first time I tried it because the modified bios is named BIOS1.WPH and the PHLASH16 programs seems to want the file to be named BIOS.WPH. I renamed the file, and the next time I tried running it I got an "Invalid FlashInt.Bin" error.
The thread continued with download links from
http://rghost.net but currently nothing can be downloaded from that site.
The original WiFi card does not work, so I could not pull up the PCI ID from it. I've attached pictures of the physical card in case there's some identification information on it that can be used, as the PCI ID does not seem to be listed.
BIOS from manufacturer's site:
Lenovo BIOS
Modified BIOS from the original Lenovo Z575 thread:
https://app.box.com/s/w7jarowp5yddejvxm4eh
Link to images of original WiFi card and windows error:
https://imgur.com/a/FHRL1zw
The BIOS Backup files from my laptop:
https://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/f6AC...b07gNzHcRA
I made the BIOS backup files following this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BItGfpyyHnI
I don't really know what I'm doing and I've already spent 4 or 5 hours on this. This BIOS does not appear to be in the Whitelisted BIOS Repository.
Any help would be appreciated.