How To Open/Edit Bios
The bios i'm trying to open has an .exe extension. I am currently using Phonix Bios Editor and Win Rar. When I extract the .exe file (7buj23us.exe) I do not see any files that have a .bin extension. This is for a thinkpad. I am very new to this, any help would be greatly appreciated.
That exe file you refer to (7buj23us.exe) has the bios update within it in
segments that look as though it's meant to be flashed within windows
using the winphlash utility in the (7buj23us.exe) package...
The only way I got around this problem once on an HP bios, which was an
AMI bios in many segments as such, was to flash the update to the system,
then used a version of the ami flash utility that has options of user input
as far as the chip "type" used for the bios, somewhere between flash845
& flash865, to save the newly flashed bios, allowing me to edit it...
Unfortunately, most OEM type bios's I attempt to save the bios from using
any program like uniflash or whatever, don't ever detect the chip, & usually
result in a corrupt saved bios file...
Yet the ami flash programs allow user input as far as telling it what type of
chip your bios is on if in the event the flash utility doesn't detect the chip...
I've saved HP bios's this way, using flash860, then edited it with the
ami bios editing program, then flashed it back to the board successfully &
ran OK...
But you can kill it in some cases...
I'd be cautious of editing a bios if the chip was soldered onto the board
unless you had the ability to desolder it, fix it & put it back...
Or better still, soldering a chip mount back to the board, had to do that
before because of killing the bios in an attempt to tweak it...
segments that look as though it's meant to be flashed within windows
using the winphlash utility in the (7buj23us.exe) package...
The only way I got around this problem once on an HP bios, which was an
AMI bios in many segments as such, was to flash the update to the system,
then used a version of the ami flash utility that has options of user input
as far as the chip "type" used for the bios, somewhere between flash845
& flash865, to save the newly flashed bios, allowing me to edit it...
Unfortunately, most OEM type bios's I attempt to save the bios from using
any program like uniflash or whatever, don't ever detect the chip, & usually
result in a corrupt saved bios file...
Yet the ami flash programs allow user input as far as telling it what type of
chip your bios is on if in the event the flash utility doesn't detect the chip...
I've saved HP bios's this way, using flash860, then edited it with the
ami bios editing program, then flashed it back to the board successfully &
ran OK...
But you can kill it in some cases...
I'd be cautious of editing a bios if the chip was soldered onto the board
unless you had the ability to desolder it, fix it & put it back...
Or better still, soldering a chip mount back to the board, had to do that
before because of killing the bios in an attempt to tweak it...