Phoenix Bios Recovery
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Lots of the ways to recover a BIOS is based on floppies because they don't believe in ever updating the low level machine code. The reason for the recovery is to access the very basic of things in assembly, rather than bootstrapping up the rest of the BIOS to handle things like IRQ assignments and such.
That said, I'm guessing this laptop, being rugged, has lots of replaceable components on it. Best way to recover a BIOS is not to recover at all but to yank and replace. Takes all of a few minutes, and if you are really hard core, can recover the chip on the bench with tools. But you don't strike me as the type that has access to an EEPROM writer. And the other way would require that the company supply you with one.
Most companies have a method of recovering the BIOS. Lots of the generic ones usually don't apply because of the modifications they make to the code. Worth a shot, but not necessarily gonna work, for the floppy reason a lot of times.
Extract the KCB.ROM from the KBC.EXE file in the original installer. Grab a USB floppy if you can, which should be able to access the low level FDD commands. That should do it.
Sh** older than crap, might be better to just cut your losses and get a new rugged laptop. Panasonic's stuff has gotten pretty good.
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Something happend to my OP.. Oh well.
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This thread is weird....
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Looks like a bug. I'll report to the developers.
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@scottalanmiller said:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/2642/original-post-disappears-thread-remains
Awesome. Thanks!
