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    [help]Sony vaio bios problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by d00m, Sep 21, 2012.

  1. d00m

    d00m Newbie

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    Hello All , for the first sorry for my language .
    Sony Vaio VGN-CS31S/q
    I`ve tried to flash INSYDE h2o bios with unlocked functions , when i made it with windows 7 with InsydeFlash all was ok till restart.
    When i restarted my laptop , windows wont boot , becasue of acpi error.
    I cant boot in xp , win7 , cant make a clean install because of acpi.
    So i made a install of ubuntu and all works fine.
    I readed a lot of forums about flashing bios and cant get to work.
    i`ve downloaded from sony site bios (exe file) and uncompressed it so i have a files to flash (file with .rom) , i read that i need to change the name to SonyX64.fd and fla with fla.exe in dos. So i made like in most tutorial , ive downloaded win98.zip , dowloaded hirensboot. I`m in dos and when i want to flash i got errors (facp) , ive tried phlash6 too , and it type mi "bios is corupted". I cant flash anything. Linux are ok but still have problem with windows. Can anybody help ? i will be very thankfull.
    Also i dot know how to make key combination to read from usb bios file (any fn + , win + , alt+ dot work).
    Maybe somebody have original bios file to my laptop so it wil be work on phlash.
    I can only boot to xpmini with hiren`s boot but when i run insydeflash.exe it says 'cant load driver'. O xp live cd i got error when loads driver pnp007
    In service the want about 80E so it will be nice if you can help me ;)
    Greets Guys
     
  2. ngvuanh

    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    I doubt CS series have insyde bios.
     
  3. d00m

    d00m Newbie

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    VGN-CS31S/Q have Insyde H2O bios Mate