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    help flash phoenix bios for CF-18

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by cjfarlkenbury1, Oct 16, 2009.

  1. cjfarlkenbury1

    cjfarlkenbury1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok hears the deal dont laugh igot the tough book setup the way every one said but my wife was plkaying and locked the bios she dosent know what she did and icant figure out what she put for a pass word ive tried all the back doors they dont work ive tried debugginf dosent work so knwo i need to flash ive downloaded the right bios from the canada site paNNY us dosenbt list it that i saw but can some one tell me how to flah itfrom a usb any help would be apreciated thanks

    tough book newbiee

    john
     
    cjfarlkenbury1, Oct 16, 2009
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  2. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    To my knowledge you won't be able to flash it without the password either as you would need to set the boot order. Also... Discussions of how to bypass passwords in open forum is strictly forbidden.
     
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    cjfarlkenbury1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    sorry about that im actually just looking to start over and i have the boot order set already i just want to know how to flash bios from a THUMB DRIVE
     
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    You can read in some of the stickies posted at the top of the forum where to download drivers. You would need to find the BIOS flash for your particular model. Hopefully it was due for an upgrade. The instructions are located with the BIOS upgrade usually.
     
    Toughbook, Oct 16, 2009
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    Alex Super Moderator

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    I have a panasonic usb floppy that I use on older models to flash the bios
    As Toughbook says we cannot help you here on clearing a password
    Do you realy need in the bios settings?

    Alex
     
    Alex, Oct 17, 2009
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    cjfarlkenbury1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    yes i do ds o i can enable the gps its the only reason i can figure thats its not working if i cant ge help ill just put the gps module in my other cf 18 but since it was in this one i figured i try to fix what she did and also it says the bios version is 1.3 ir something like that im sure phonieox awards has come out with newer one so i understand why you can help nme to get rid of pass word becuse of guys ghosting laptops but i just wanted to upgrade
     
    cjfarlkenbury1, Oct 17, 2009
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    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    Phoenix doesn't write the BIOS for Toughbooks; Panasonic does. Just because Phoenix lists a newer BIOS for a chipset means nothing; what matters is what the latest PANASONIC BIOS for YOUR model is. Using ANY other BIOS .bin is a near-certain recipe for a Magnesium Doorstop...

    mnem
    Put down the FLASH disk & SLOWLY BACK AWAY FROM THE TOUGHBOOK...
     
    mnementh, Oct 18, 2009
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