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    How to extract contents of bios .rom file?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chris89, Dec 23, 2012.

  1. chris89

    chris89 Notebook Consultant

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    I need to extract the contents of a .rom file so I can mod the specified .rom graphics file and then recompile so I can then flash the modded bios...

    How do I go about doing this?

    Thanks
     
    chris89, Dec 23, 2012
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  2. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    What Machine are you doing this for and what "type " of BIOS AMI, Phoenix?
    Hopefully one of the BIOS experts here like JamesD will contribute here also
     
    JOSEA, Dec 23, 2012
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  3. chris89

    chris89 Notebook Consultant

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    It's AMI bios for my ASUS K53SV-XR1. I dumped the contents of my bios file using Phoenix SLIC tool via the dump and out of the 361 files I did a search for the word NVIDIA and found 2 files, one of which gave a typical error on Nibitor however the other file being what I think is in fact the nvidia video bios. I need a .rom file that nibitor will accept without error, you know what I mean.

    I used UltraEdit to search all 361 files and got this as a result... I tried opening the file and got a weird error.

    A062CF1F-8473-4AA3-8793-600BC4FFE9A8_1_192.ROM is 477KB and I'm guessing it's located inside this file. Can I extract the contents of a .ROM file?

    HERE'S THE DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK FROM MY MEDIAFIRE ACCOUNT OF THE K53SVAS.320 FILE :)

    I can .rar my dump for you if you want? :p ;) Save you some time and effort...

    http://www.mediafire.com/?8yeftfwy2clyrhm

    [​IMG]
     
    chris89, Dec 23, 2012
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  4. bamdad61

    bamdad61 Newbie

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    Hi chris89, i'm looking for that rom file too, did you find any solution?
     
    bamdad61, Apr 7, 2013
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  5. noric

    noric Notebook Consultant

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    For AMI bioses there's a tool named MMTool.
     
    noric, Apr 9, 2013
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