Flashing BIOS and getting 'Access Denied'

I am attempting to flash the BIOS and I keep getting a message stating,
'Cannot Load Driver C:\PHLASH.SYS ACCESS DENIED' then it says to check my
permissions and log on as administrator. I am using the admin account and
have checked all possible permissions and can't find the problem. I am
running Vista Ultimate 64bit. ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated. Please
send any suggesstions to 'daniel.mcmaster@sbcglobal.net'.

CarolSteele
Tue Feb 20 00:14:30 CST 2007

Have you tried flashing the BIOS at boot up via a floppy disk, this, to me,
has always seemed the safest option.

"Dan" wrote:

> I am attempting to flash the BIOS and I keep getting a message stating,
> 'Cannot Load Driver C:\PHLASH.SYS ACCESS DENIED' then it says to check my
> permissions and log on as administrator. I am using the admin account and
> have checked all possible permissions and can't find the problem. I am
> running Vista Ultimate 64bit. ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated. Please
> send any suggesstions to 'daniel.mcmaster@sbcglobal.net'.

Barb
Tue Feb 20 05:12:15 CST 2007

Robert McLaws posted a fairly complicated work around
http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2007/02/17/solution-for-updating-the-bios-on-windows-vista-x64-machines.aspx

there doesn't seem to be a 64 bit winphlash which is the issue.

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:37:36 -0800, Dan
<Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am attempting to flash the BIOS and I keep getting a message stating,
>'Cannot Load Driver C:\PHLASH.SYS ACCESS DENIED' then it says to check my
>permissions and log on as administrator. I am using the admin account and
>have checked all possible permissions and can't find the problem. I am
>running Vista Ultimate 64bit. ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated. Please
>send any suggesstions to 'daniel.mcmaster@sbcglobal.net'.
--

Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
Expert Zone & Vista Community Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

Dan
Tue Feb 20 19:08:05 CST 2007

My Laptop doesn't have floppy :(

"Carol Steele" wrote:

> Have you tried flashing the BIOS at boot up via a floppy disk, this, to me,
> has always seemed the safest option.
>
> "Dan" wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to flash the BIOS and I keep getting a message stating,
> > 'Cannot Load Driver C:\PHLASH.SYS ACCESS DENIED' then it says to check my
> > permissions and log on as administrator. I am using the admin account and
> > have checked all possible permissions and can't find the problem. I am
> > running Vista Ultimate 64bit. ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated. Please
> > send any suggesstions to 'daniel.mcmaster@sbcglobal.net'.

Dan
Tue Feb 20 19:12:00 CST 2007

Very helpful...will attempt and post results. THANKS!

"Barb Bowman" wrote:

> Robert McLaws posted a fairly complicated work around
> http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2007/02/17/solution-for-updating-the-bios-on-windows-vista-x64-machines.aspx
>
> there doesn't seem to be a 64 bit winphlash which is the issue.
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:37:36 -0800, Dan
> <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I am attempting to flash the BIOS and I keep getting a message stating,
> >'Cannot Load Driver C:\PHLASH.SYS ACCESS DENIED' then it says to check my
> >permissions and log on as administrator. I am using the admin account and
> >have checked all possible permissions and can't find the problem. I am
> >running Vista Ultimate 64bit. ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated. Please
> >send any suggesstions to 'daniel.mcmaster@sbcglobal.net'.
> --
>
> Barb Bowman
> MS Windows-MVP
> Expert Zone & Vista Community Columnist
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
> http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
>