Crisis Recovery - HP Net Vectra Supplementary Manual

2 Create a bootable flexible disk and copy PHLASH.EXE, FLASH.BAT,
3 Power-on the PC and press the

Crisis Recovery

Although the BIOS flash process is very well protected, there is always a
possibility of a failure (for example, due to a power failure during the BIOS
flash). To avoid replacing the motherboard due to corrupted EEPROM, a crisis
recovery function has been created to restore the contents.
1 Create a bootable flexible disk and copy phlash.exe , pfmhh105.bin and
2 Create a new autoexec.bat with the following line in it:
3 Toggle motherboard switch 7 and 8 to the CLOSED position.
4 Insert the flexible disk.
5 Power on the system and hear it flash (no image is shown!). The last long
6 Power off the system.
7 Toggle back switch 7 and 8 to the OPEN position, then remove the flexible
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AUTOEXEC.BAT and PFMHHxxx.BIN from the PHLASH directory. Copy
the BIOS binary file "HExxxx.FUL" to the flexible disk.
flexible disk. When the PC starts from the flexible disk, type:
flash HExxxx.ful to update your BIOS.
your bios image file (HExxxx.FUL).
phlash /V /mode=3 /b=pfmhh105.bin /exit qhe0021.rom
beep indicates the end of the flashing.
disk. The BIOS is now recovered and updated.
The power button is not protected in bootblock flashing mode. However,
since /pf=b option is not used, we don't flash the bootblock, thus shutting
down during the phlash update is not critical.
Flashing in boot block mode is blind (no video), except if you plug an
external ISA video card.
Flashing the Latest Version of the System BIOS
key to force the PC to boot from the
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