[Yet another 'blind leading the blind' story, so grateful for help]
a friend bricked his Dell XPS 13 L322x Laptop computer. No reaction of any kind from the machine.
I read and read and it seems that WinCris is the right way to recover in this situation. One essential step is to get the relevant .wph from the manufacturer's website, to rename it BOOT.WPH, and then to add this file to the WINCRIS collection.
My problem is that no matter what i do, the only file I seem to be able to squeeze out of the Dell .exe that updates the bios is a file named
BIOS.CAP
Now I saw in an acer forum something that suggested that the .CAP file just adds a 2048-byte header to the 'older' .ROM, so that I could do
dd bs=2048 skip=1 if=BIOS.CAP of=BIOS.BIN
and that i could just rename BIOS.BIN to BIOS.WPH, and use that for WinCRIS.
1.Can anyone confirm that? Is there a chance that using WinCris with such a BIOS.WPH file will actually fix my bad bios?
2. Wincris talks about using key combos such as Fn+B or Win+B, but i see that 'ordinary' flash with Dell seems to be about pressing <end>.
Can anyone tell me if either a. pressing <end> is the way to enter recovery mode on some Dell models; or if b. no no , pressing <end> might be ordinary flashing, but you need to do Fn+B (or one of the other similar codes) to do a **recovery** flash that will restore a bricked machine.
In case someone wants to / can look at the Dell Bios update-.exe, to tell me if I need to convert the .CAP file somehow, or dosomething else to extract a useable .WPH file, i'd be very grateful. I tried to attach it here, but the site won't allow .exe attachments. It is very easy to get - L322xA06.exe on the Dell Support website. PM me and I will send you a copy immediately.
THANKS very much!
scott
thank you
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