dynabook SATELLITE PRO C50-H - Data File Used for Maintenance; Writeable BIOS (EC) FW File [Rev01]; File Path & Purpose; File Name Format

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2 Data File used for Maintenance
2.1 Writeable BIOS (EC) FW File
[Rev01]
2.1.1 File Path & Purpose
For YangPass20:
The “KN16RV***_40W.rom” (KN16RV*** is BIOS version) file in “\data” folder is used as the writeable BIOS (EC) FW file
for
BIOS Update (when motherboard is replaced) and also for BIOS Update (when motherboard is NOT replaced).
For YangPass30:
The “IN16V***.rom” (IN16V*** is BIOS version) file in “\data” folder is used as the writeable BIOS (EC) FW file for BIOS
Update (when motherboard is replaced) and also for BIOS Update (when motherboard is NOT replaced).
2.1.2 File Name Format
For YangPass20:
Regular expression (file names do not match will be ignored): “KN16RV\d+_.+\.rom”
For YangPass30:
Regular expression (file names do not match will be ignored): “IN16V\d+\.rom”
2.1.3 File Update
About How to update BIOS file (to use a BIOS file of the newest one for updating), you can simply copy the new BIOS
file(both KN16RV***_40W.rom and IN16V***.rom) into \data folder. This tool can auto select & use the newest one that
applicable for target machine (YangPass20 or YangPass30), and you can also remove the old one if you want.
2.1.4 File Select & Use
This tool can automatically select & use the latest BIOS (EC) FW file, you can also remove the old one if you want.
For YangPass20:
If there are more than one of “KN16RV***_40W.rom” files, the latest one is selected by below rule:
1. Select the one that has the maximum version (*** in file name) from all of the “KN16RV***_40W.rom” files.
For YangPass30:
If there are more than one of “IN16V***.rom” files, , the latest one is selected by below rule:
1. Select the one that has the maximum version (ROM ID) from all of the “IN16V***.rom” files.
(ROM ID is read from the “IN16V***.rom” file.)
For both YangPass20/30:
If you have the rom file name swithed for YangPass20 and YangPass30, this tool will find out the unmatched rom (bios
rom unmatched to the running PC), and it will be shown like below:
Note: It is by comparing the ROM GUID that read from machine and the one that read from ROM file.