Batteryless 770z upgrade

[jon42689]

I've read numerous accounts of people flashing their BIOS without a charged battery. Does anyone know of a working method using the latest BIOS update from IBM?


One set of instructions I tried was the following.

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phlash.exe and
$0179000.FL1
$0179000.FL3.


and rename the

$0179000.fl1 to bios.rom ,
$0179000.fl3 to platform.bin

then run phlash.exe


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There's a slight problem. The official IBM upgrade disk does not have

'$0179000.FL1'
'$0179000.FL3'

It has two files:

$0043000.fl1 and $0043000.fl2

When I run the "phlash.exe" it tells me that "the vendor signature could not be read from "platform.bin."

Any ideas?

(Or also, if someone has a battery that works that they'd be interested in loaning me for the 2 minutes this would take, let me know)

-Thanks everyone